Records of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) with a description of a new species of Sergentomyia França & Parrot from Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Author
Curler, Gregory R.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2806
60
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.277084
e04b1b7a-0014-46f7-976d-663a5dcbe0a6
1175-5326
277084
Sergentomyia
França
& Parrot, 1920
Newsteadia
França
, 1919
: 148
(as subgenus of
Phlebotomus
).
Type
species:
Hebotomus
[sic]
minutus
Rondani, 1843
by designation of
França
(1920: 234) [junior homonym of
Newsteadia
Green, 1902
].
Sergentomyia
França
& Parrot, 1920
: 699
[replacement name for
Newsteadia
França
].
Prophlebotomus
França
& Parrot, 1921
: 281
.
Type
species:
Hebotomus
[sic]
minutus
Rondani, 1843
by designation of Parrot (1934: 391) [junior synonym of
Sergentomyia
França
& Parrot].
See
Lewis (1978)
for complete synonymy.
Sergentomyia
includes more than half of the described phlebotomine fauna in the eastern hemisphere, approximately 280 species. As noted by
Seccombe
et al.
(1993)
,
Sergentomyia
species usually feed on ectothermic vertebrates, but some species (e.g.
S. gomboki
) are known to take bloodmeals form mammals, including humans.