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 Nyssomyia ylephiletor (Fairchild & Hertig, 1952) Phlebotomus ylephiletor Fairchild & Hertig, 1952: 520 (♂, ♀). Type locality: Panama , Bocas del Toro, Almirante. Additional references: Fairchild & Hertig, 1959: 122 (distribution). Phlebotomus olmecus Vargas & Díaz-Nájera, 1959: 147 (in part, female description correspond to Ny. ylephiletor ). Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) ylephiletrix (Fairchild & Hertig) : Barretto, 1962: 98 (list). Lutzomyia ylephiletrix (Fairchild & Hertig) species group Intermedia : Theodor, 1965: 184 (list). Psychodopygus (Trichophoromyia) ylephiletor (Fairchild & Hertig) : Forattini, 1971a: 106 (listed); Forattini, 1973: 123 (taxonomy, distribution). Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) ylephiletor (Fairchild & Hertig) : Martins et al., 1978: 103 (references, distribution); Young, 1979: 162 (references, distribution); Ready & Fraiha, 1981: 709 (key); Zeledón et al ., 1982: 276 ( Honduras record); Christensen et al ., 1983: 466 (abundance, Panama ); Murillo & Zeledón, 1985: 55 ( Costa Rica records); Young & Duncan, 1994: 462 (references, taxonomy, distribution); Rebollar-Téllez et al., 2004: 285 (Campeche, record), Rebollar-Téllez et al., 2005: 197 (Campeche abundance data). Nyssomyia ylephiletor (Fairchild & Hertig) : Galati, 2003: 46, 124, 125 (list, keys). Diagnosis. Mesonotum dark, pronotum and paratergite pale; Male: gonostylus with 2 terminal spines close together, separated by distance similar to greatest width of terminal spine, proximal 2 spines inserted at at same level and middle one-third of article; genital filaments shorter than 2X apodeme + pump length; Female: spermatheca with 5 to 7 annuli, basal annuli smaller than distal annuli, and capitulum as wide as its terminal annulus; individual spermathecal ducts shorter than 2X length of spermatheca, without sclerotized rugosities (Young & Duncan 1994, Galati 2003). Material examined. Collected with CDC light traps. MEXICO : CHIAPAS: Guadalupe Miramar: 12-viii-2009 , 1 ♂ ; 20-iv-2010 , 1 ♀; 01-xii-2010 , 1 ♂ . Loma Bonita: 19-ii-2010 , 1 ♀; 20-ii-2010 , 1 ♀; 19-iii-2011 , 1 ♀; 20-iii- 2010 , 1 ♀; 24-x-2010 , 1 ♂ . San Antonio Buena Vista: 28-iii-2010 , 1 ♀. Distribution. MEXICO (Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco) (Rebollar-Téllez et al . 2004, Ibáñez-Bernal, 2005), BELIZE , GUATEMALA , HONDURAS , NICARAGUA , COSTA RICA , PANAMA , COLOMBIA (Young & Duncan 1994, Galati 2003). Remarks. This species is antropophilous and has been found infected with Leishmania mexicana in Guatemala (Porter et al . 1987). It is also suspected as a vector of Leishmania panamensis in Panama (Christensen & Herrer 1973). One female of this species (out of eight females examined), was found positive (12.5%) for Le. mexicana infection in the Mexican state of Campeche. The actual role of this species as a vector is hithertho unknown (Pech-May et al. 2010).