Eratyrus

{{Short description|Genus of true bugs}}

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| authority = Stål, 1859

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Eratyrus is a genus of insects belonging to the assassin bug subfamily Triatominae.{{Cite journal|author=Ryckman, Raymond E.|year=1986|title=The Triatominae of South America: A check list with synonymy|journal=Bulletin of the Society for Vector Ecology|volume=11|issue=2|pages=199–208}}

This genus has a wide distribution throughout central and northern South America and Central America.

There are two species in this genus; both are associated with Trypanosoma cruzi:

• Eratyrus cuspidatus (Stål, 1859){{Cite book|last1=Dujardin |first1=Jean-Pierre |last2=Schofield |first2=Christopher John |last3=Panzera |first3=Francisco |year=2000|title=Les vecteurs de la maladie de Chagas: recherches taxonomiques, biologiques et génétiques|location=Brussel|publisher=Koninklijke Academie Voor Overzeese Wetenschappen|page=116|isbn=}}
• Eratyrus mucronatus (Stål, 1859){{harvnb|Dujardin|Schofield|Panzera|2000|pp=30, 160}}