vinchucan.
/vɪnˈtʃuːkə/ One of several blood-sucking triatomine bugs of Central and South America, esp. Triatoma infestans.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of family Reduviidae > member of subfamily Triatomidae
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1932 Listener 17 Aug. 227/1 The Vinchuca, a horrid looking beetle from half to an inch long..settles on its victims and draws their blood.
1971 P. C. C. Garnham Progress in Parasitol. ix. 189 In the opinion of Adler..Darwin contracted Chagas' Disease..when he landed on the coast of Argentina and was bitten by the ‘vinchucas’ (the triatomid bugs which convey the infection).
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