A new species of Laurenceomyia Wagner & Stuckenberg, with a key to species and new records for Psychodidae (Diptera) from Uruguay
Author
Canneva, Bruno
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-01-14
4544
3
407
418
journal article
27664
10.11646/zootaxa.4544.3.6
b45d8c59-075d-4c9f-a912-367e906a447e
1175-5326
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Lutzomyia longipalpis
(Lutz & Neiva)
Phlebotomus longipalpis
Lutz & Neiva, 1912: 89
(male, female).
Type
locality:
Brazil
.
Lutzomyia longipalpis
: Theodor 1965: 181
;
Forattini 1973
: 213
;
Young & Duncan 1994
: 56
.
Literature records in
Uruguay
.
Salomón
et al
. (2011).
Salto
,
Departamento de Salto
; Bella Unión,
Departamento de Artigas
.
Satragno
et al
. (2017)
. Arenitas Blancas,
Salto
.
Remarks.
This species is the main vector of visceral leishmaniasis in America. The first autochthonous canine record of the disease in
Uruguay
occurred in
2015 in
the northern part of the territory (
Satragno
et al.
2017
).