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
Pintomyia
Costa Lima, 1932
Phlebotomus (Pintomyia)
Costa Lima, 1932
: 44
.
Type
species:
Phlebotomus fischeri
Pinto
, by original designation.
Phlebotomus
species group
triacanthus
Fairchild, 1955
: 194
(series
fischeri
).
Lutzomyia (Pintomyia)
Costa Lima:
Barretto, 1962
: 92
;
Theodor, 1965
: 192
;
Lewis
et al
., 1977
: 325
;
Martins
et al
., 1978
: 25
;
Young & Duncan, 1994
: 269
.
Pintomyia
(as genus):
Forattini, 1971a
: 103
;
Forattini, 1973
: 497
;
Artemiev, 1991
: 73
;
Galati, 1995
: 137
;
Galati, 2003
: 37
.
Diagnosis.
Antennal flagellomere 1 as long as or longer than one-half the head length. Male: paramere simple, without preapical angular protuberance in ventral margin; gonocoxite with a basal-internal sclerotization; gonostylus with pre-apical setae; lateral lobe slightly slenderer than gonocoxite and with rounded apex. Female: tergum VIII usually with setae; spermathecal common duct as long that reach or surpass the middle of the furca’s trunk (
Galati 2003
).
Remarks.
Galati (1995
,
2003
) recognized two subgenera,
Pintomyia (Pintomyia)
with species distributed primarily in South
America
and one species as far north as
Panama
in Central
America
, and
Pintomyia (Pifanomyia)
Ortiz & Scorza
, a widely distributed and species-rich subgenus, with species known from
Mexico
to
Argentina
and representatives in the area surveyed in our study.