Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of Chiapas collected near the Guatemala border, with additions to the fauna of Mexico and a new subgenus name
Author
Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio
Author
Muñoz, José
Author
Rebollar-Téllez, Eduardo A.
Author
Pech-May, Agelica
Author
Marina, Carlos F.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3994
2
151
186
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3994.2.1
008a674e-04dd-444c-919c-a32be0ba5460
1175-5326
239180
32027FAA-4AB3-4394-841D-33571F25529E
Micropygomyia (Sauromyia) trinidadensis
(
Newstead, 1922
)
(series
oswaldoi
)
Phlebotomus trinidadensis
Newstead, 1922
: 47
(♂, ♀).
Type
locality:
Trinidad
. Additional references:
Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a
: 253
(references, taxonomy).
Phlebotomus yucatanensis
Galliard, 1934a
: 1
(♂, ♀).
Type
locality:
Mexico
, Yucatán, near Chichen Itzá. Additional references:
Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a
: 255
(as synonym of
trinidadensis
).
Phlebotomus yucatanensis
var.
baduelensis
Floch & Abonnenc, 1941a
: 4
(♂).
Type
locality:
French Guiana
, Baduel). Additional references:
Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a
: 255
(as synonym of
trinidadensis
).
Phlebotomus villelai
Mangabeira, 1942a
: 196
(♂).
Type
locality:
Brazil
, Ceara and Pará. Additional references: Barretto, 1946b: 527 (as synonym of
baduelensis
);
Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a
: 255
(as synonym of
trinidadensis
).
Phlebotomus baduelensis
Floch & Abonnenc, 1944e
: 1
(♂, ♀).
Type
locality:
French Guiana
.
Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a
: 255
(as synonym of
trinidadensis
);
Floch & Abonnenc, 1952
: 163
.
Lutzomyia trinidadensis
(Newstead)
:
Young & Duncan, 1994
: 683
(as species group
Oswaldoi
, taxonomic history, figures, keys, taxonomy). Additional references:
Ibáñez-Bernal, 2003
: 130
(diagnosis, references);
Rebollar-Téllez
et al.,
2004
: 285
(Campeche records),
Rebollar-Téllez
et al.,
2006
: 24
(Yucatan records),
May-Uc
et al.,
2011
: 279
(Quintana Roo records).
Micropygomyia (Sauromyia) trinidadensis
(Newstead)
:
Galati, 2003
: 33
(listed).
Diagnosis.
Male: Clypeus longer than 0.3 of the total length of head; apodeme and ejaculatory pump about 3.5 the length of the ejaculatory ducts, these with simple not modified apex; paramere suddenly sharpened at middle; lateral lobe shorter than gonocoxite; gonocoxite without a consolidated tuft of setae, but with about 7 isolated perennial fine setae distributed at middle; gonostylus with the basal spiniform setae robust, similar in length and at same level (2+1+2). Female: cibarium with a dome-shaped protuberance, two pairs of horizontal teeth which are more separated at middle and without vertical teeth or at least difficult to see; pharynx with spines; spermathecae banana-shaped, walls smooth (
Young & Duncan 1994
,
Galati 2003
).
Material examined.
MEXICO
: CHIAPAS: Loma Bonita,
06-vii-2010
,
CDC
light trap, 1 ♀.
Distribution.
MEXICO
(Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Yucatán) (
Ibáñez-Bernal 2003
;
Ibáñez-Bernal 2005a
),
BELIZE
,
GUATEMALA
,
HONDURAS
,
NICARAGUA
,
COSTA RICA
,
PANAMA
,
COLOMBIA
,
VENEZUELA
,
TRINIDAD
, FRENCH
GUYANA
,
ECUADOR
,
PERU
,
BRAZIL
,
BOLIVIA
(
Martins
et al
. 1978
;
Young & Duncan 1994
).
Remarks.
This species was not abundant in the studied specimens. This species is not anthropophilous, with females feeding on ectothermic vertebrates (Tesh
et al
. 1971).