www.biotaxa.org/rce. ISSN 0718-8994 (online) Revista Chilena de Entomología (2020) 46 (2): 357-375. Research Article The importance of biological collections for public health: The case of the Triatominae collection of the Museum of the Institute of Agricultural Zoology “Francisco Fernández Yépez”, Venezuela La importancia de las colecciones biológicas para la salud pública: El caso de la colección de Triatominae del Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola “Francisco Fernández Yépez”, Venezuela Jader de Oliveira1*, Marco Gaiani2, Diony Velasquez2, Vilma Savini2, José Manuel Ayala3, Joao Aristeu Da Rosa1, Maria Tercília Vilela de Azeredo-Oliveira4 and Kaio Cesar Chaboli Alevi 1 1 Laboratório de Parasitologia, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (FCFAR/UNESP), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil. 2 Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola Francisco Fernández Yépez, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Estado Aragua, Venezuela. 3 Stiles ln, Cedar Park, Texas 78613, United States of America. 4 Laboratório de Biologia Celular, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (IBILCE/UNESP), São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brasil. *Corresponding author: e-mail:
[email protected] ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub: EF43A6B6-288D-4115-8AC9-84920709E446 https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.46.2.20.24 Abstract. Entomological collections help scientists to rapidly identify invasive insects that affect agriculture, forestry, and human and animal health and to infer about global change biology. There are several collections with deposited Chagas disease vectors that are distributed throughout the world, but most of them present in Brazil.