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
Dampfomyia delpozoi
(
Vargas & Díaz-Nájera, 1953
) (species group
delpozoi
)
Phlebotomus del-pozoi
Vargas & Díaz-Nájera, 1953a
: 42
(♂, ♀). Type-locality:
Mexico
, Chiapas, Mariscal.
Lutzomyia delpozoi
(Vargas & Díaz-Nájera):
Theodor, 1965
: 196
;
Young & Duncan, 1994
: 243
(as species group
delpozoi
; taxonomy, keys, figures);
Ibáñez-Bernal, 2001a
: 29
(
type
specimens review, figures);
Ibáñez-Bernal, 2005a
: 51
, 54 (records, male key);
Ibáñez-Bernal, 2005b
: 202
(female key).
Pressatia delpozoi
(Vargas & Díaz-Nájera):
Forattini, 1971a
: 106
; 1973: 515 (figs.).
Dampfomyia delpozoi
(Vargas & Díaz-Nájera) species group
delpozoi
:
Galati, 2003
: 39
, 102 (list, keys).
Diagnosis.
Male: Gonocoxite shortest than lateral lobe, basally with a modified robust setae and internally with sclerotization; gonostylus with 4 spiniform setae all situated at different levels, the basal one in basal third; preapical fine seta present; paramere with acute apex and with lateral fold, without acute projection in dorsal margin (not considering the terminalia inversion). Female: without characters to separate from other species of this species-group (
Galati 2003
,
Young & Duncan 1994
).
Material examined.
MEXICO
: CHIAPAS:
Guadalupe
Miramar,
09-xii-2009
, 1 ♀;
22-iv-2010
, 1 ♀;
12-v-2010
,
1 ♂
;
13-viii-2010
, 1 ♀;
08-ii-2011
, 1 ♀;
16-iii-2011
, 1 ♀;
17-iii-2011
, 2 ♀. Loma Bonita,
19-ii-2010
, 1 ♀.
Distribution.
MEXICO
(Chiapas) (Ibáñez-Bernal 2001),
BELIZE
,
GUATEMALA
(Young & Duncan 1994)
.
Remarks.
Females of this species group cannot be separated. Females are recorded here as
Da.
delpozoi
because we found them in relation to males. Female feeding habits are unknown, although they appeared to not be anthropophilous.