Resumen

SOTO VIVAS, Ana; RODRIGUEZ, Claudina; BONFANTE-CABARCA, Rafael  y  ALDANA, Elis. Geometric morphometrics of Triatoma maculata (Erichson, 1848) from domestic and peridomestic areas, Lara state, Venezuela. Bol Mal Salud Amb [online]. 2007, vol.47, n.2, pp.231-235. ISSN 1690-4648.

Wing geometric morphometrics was used to study the spatial structuring of populations of Triatoma maculata from different ecotopes within a village in western Venezuela. A total of 74 T. maculata collected from peridomestic and domestic ecotopes from November 2002 to November 2003 were analyzed. No statistically significant differences were found between males and females from domestic and peridomestic ecotopes, which suggests that the triatomines collected form part of the same population and therefore non-adaptative strategies are being developed by T. maculata to human dwellings in this locality.

Palabras clave : Triatoma maculata; population structure; isometric size; configuration.