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 (Coquillettimyia) chiapanensis
(
Dampf, 1947
)
Phlebotomus chiapanensis
Dampf, 1947
: 180
(♀).
Type
locality:
Mexico
, Chiapas, Chiapa de Corzo. Additonal references:
Fairchild & Hertig, 1948b
: 456
(♂, ♀).
Lutzomyia (Micropygomyia) chiapanensis
(Dampf)
:
Young & Duncan, 1994
: 637
(keys, references, distribution); Ibáñez-
Bernal, 2003
: 120
(diagnosis, references).
Micropygomyia (Coquillettimyia) chiapanensis
(Dampf)
:
Galati, 2003
: 33
, 82 (list, keys); Ibáñez-Bernal
et al.,
2011: 32 (Veracruz records, distribution).
Diagnosis.
Male: ejaculatory filaments with simple tips; gonocoxite with a basal tuft of 5 to 7 setae and a median non compact group of no more than 10 setae. Female: cibarium with 16 to 28 horizontal teeth in comb-like row, no lateral teeth; spermathecae nearly spherical with annulated basal portion, spermathecal ducts lightly striated, the individual ducts similar in width throughout (
Young & Duncan 1994
,
Galati 2003
).
Material examined.
MEXICO
: CHIAPAS: Loma Bonita,
16-ii-2010
, 1 ♀;
22-iv-2010
, 1 ♀. Collected with
CDC
light traps.
Distribution.
MEXICO
(Chiapas, Guerrero, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Sonora, Veracruz and Yucatán) (Ibáñez-Bernal
et al
. 2011),
EL SALVADOR
,
HONDURAS
,
NICARAGUA
,
COSTA RICA
, and
PANAMA
(Young & Duncan 1994
,
Galati 2003
).
Remarks.
This small species apparently has a wide distribution in Mesoamerica. In the present study it was not abundant as compared with other species or geographical areas. Females of this species apparently feed on the blood of lizards.