It is the name of a genus of turtles that have a soft shell. belong to the Trionychidae family. In Panama and some parts of Colombia it is called chitra, also to the jején, a very small mosquito transmitter of serious diseases. It is a Phlebotomus (felbotome). It means he cuts the veins. It comes from the Greek roots Phlebos vein and cut volumes. It refers to some blood-sucking insects that may be from the family Psychodidae (Order Diptera : mosquitoes) or Reduviidae (Pitos or bed bugs, but not those of the family Cimicidae). They are vectors of dangerous diseases communicable to humans and animals, Zoonosis, such as Chagas Mal or Trypanosomiasis, Bartonelosis and also Leishmanniasis. In the Province of Veraguas, in Panama, there is a town that bears that name.
