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 Psychodopygus panamensis (Shannon, 1926) , series panamensis Phlebotomus panamensis Shannon, 1926: 192 (♂). Type locality: Panama , Canal Zone. Phlebotomus (Shannonomyia) panamensis Shannon : Dyar, 1929: 117. Phlebotomus (Shannonomyina) panamensis Shannon : Fairchild & Hertig, 1951: 405. Psychodopygus (Psychodopygus) panamensis (Shannon) : Forattini, 1971: 105; Forattini, 1973: 393. Lutzomyia (Psychodopygus) panamensis (Shannon) : Martins et al ., 1978: 43 (catalogue, distribution); Young & Duncan, 1994: 579 (complete references, taxonomy, distribution); Rebollar-Téllez et al ., 2004: 285 (Campeche records); Rebollar-Téllez et al., 2005: 197 (Campeche abundance data), May-Uc et al ., 2011: 279 (Quintana Roo abundance data). Psychodopygus panamensis (Shannon) : Galati, 2003: 121, 123 (as series panamensis , list, keys); Ibáñez-Bernal et al ., 2011: 36 (Veracruz records). Diagnosis. Pronotum, katepimeron, and coxae pale, scutum dark; anepimeral setae absent. Male: paramere ventral lobe with two tufts of blade-like setae, apical lobe with two large setae, one preapical and one apical; gonostylus with 3 strong and one weak spiniform setae originated in the apical tirth; Female: cibarium with 4 horizontal teeth and a transverse row of vertical teeth plus longitudinal median rows of markedly enlarged vertical teeth; spermathecae with asymmetrical terminal annulation, clearly longer than individual spermathecal duct; common spermathecal duct smooth below rugose portion (Young & Duncan 1994, Galati 2003). Material examined. Collected with CDC light traps. MEXICO : CHIAPAS: Guadalupe Miramar, 19-vi-2009 , 1 ♀; 12-viii-2009 , 3 ♂ ; 04-ix-2009 , 1 ♂ ; 05-ix-2009 , 2 ♂ ; 21-x-2009 , 1 ♀; 09-xii-2009 , 1 ♀; 13-i-2010 , 1 ♀; 14-i- 2010 , 1 ♀; 16-ii-2010 , 2 ♂ ; 17-ii-2010 , 3 ♂ , 4 ♀; 18-ii-2010 , 2 ♀; 21-ii-2010 , 2 ♀; 17-iii-2010 , 1 ♀; 18-iii-2010 , 7 ♀; 19-iii-2010 , 1 ♂ ; 16-vi-2010 , 1 ♀; 17-vi-2010 , 1 ♂ ; 20-vi-2010 , 1 ♀; 08-vii-2010 , 1 ♀; 10-vii-2010 , 2 ♀; 19-x- 2010 , 3 ♂ ; 20-x-2010 , 9 ♂ ; 21-x-2010 , 10 ♂ ; 17-xi-2010 , 144 ♂ ; 18-xi-2010 , 109 ♂ ; 19-i-2011 , 1 ♂ , 1 ♀; 20-i- 2011 , 3 ♂ , 2 ♀; 08-ii-2011 , 1 ♂ , 7 ♀; 09-ii-2011 , 2 ♀; 10-ii-2011 , 4 ♀. Loma Bonita: 14-viii-2009 , 2 ♀; 02-ix- 2009 , 1 ♂ ; 20-x-2009 , 1 ♂ ; 19-ii-2010 , 3 ♂ , 4 ♀; 20-ii-2010 , 2 ♀; 21-ii-2010 , 1 ♂ , 4 ♀; 20-iii-2010 , 1 ♀; 16-vi- 2010 , 1 ♀; 22-x-2010 , 2 ♂ ; 24-x-2010 , 4 ♂ , 1 ♀; 18-xi-2010 , 2 ♂ ; 19-xi-2010 , 3 ♂ , 1 ♀; 21-xi-2010 , 1 ♂ ; 22-i- 2011 , 1 ♀; 12-ii-2011 , 1 ♂ . San Antonio Buena Vista: 13-vii-2010 , 1 ♂ . Collected with Magoon trap. MEXICO : CHIAPAS: Guadalupe Miramar: 16-vi-2009 , 3 ♀; 18-vi-2009 , 1 ♀; 11-viii-2009 , 1 ♀; 13-viii-2009 , 1 ♀; 14-viii-2009 , 1 ♀; 13-viii-2010 , 2 ♀; 19-viii-2010 , 1 ♀; 19-xi-2010 , 2 ♀; 20- xi-2010 , 1 ♀. Loma Bonita: 20-ii-2010 , 1 ♀; 23-x-2010 , 1 ♀. Distribution. MEXICO (Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz) (Ibáñez-Bernal 2003; Ibáñez-Bernal 2005), BELIZE , GUATEMALA , HONDURAS , NICARAGUA , COSTA RICA , PANAMA , COLOMBIA , VENEZUELA , FRENCH GUIANA , ECUADOR , BRAZIL (Young & Duncan 1994), PERU (Cáceres & Galati 2001, Galati 2003). Remarks. This is an anthropophilous species and has been found infected with Leishmania panamensis (Christensen et al . 1983) and Leishmania braziliensis (Rowton et al. 1991) . Natural infection with Le. mexicana has been reported by Pech-May et al. (2010) in the Mexican state of Campeche. In our collections, Psychodopygus panamensis was the most abundant species.