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
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Dampfomyia (Dampfomyia) permira
(Fairchild & Hertig, 1956)
(
Figures 12–16
)
Phlebotomus permirus
Fairchild & Hertig, 1956: 312
(♀).
Type
locality:
Mexico
, Chiapas, Palenque. Additional references: Lewis & Garnham, 1959: 83 (♂).
Phlebotomus tikalensis
De León, 1971
: 190 (♂).
Type
locality:
Guatemala
, Petén, Dos Lagunas. Additional references:
Young & Duncan, 1994
: 252
(synonym with
Lu. permira
).
Lutzomyia (Dampfomyia) permira
(Fairchild & Hertig)
:
Young & Duncan, 1994
: 252
(references, taxonomy, distribution). Additional references:
Rebollar-Téllez
et al
., 2004
: 285
(Campeche records),
May-Uc
et al
., 2011
: 279
(Quintana Roo records).
Dampfomyia (Dampfomyia) permira
(Fairchild & Hertig)
:
Galati, 2003
: 39
, 102 (list, keys); Ibáñez-Bernal
et al.,
2011: 36 (Veracruz records).
Diagnosis.
Male: Gonocoxite about 2.0 times as long as broad, gonostylus with two strong, one thin spiniform setae and a preapical small setae; paramere with a long slender ventral arm and without dorsal triangular projection (nor considering the terminalia inversion); spermal duct tips strongly enlarged. Female: spermathecae with large rounded protuberances at base and finger-like vesicles at apex, almost lacking individual ducts (
Young & Duncan 1994
;
Galati 2003
).
Material examined.
MEXICO
: CHIAPAS:
Guadalupe
Miramar,
05-ix-2009
,
1 ♂
;
20-iv-2010
, 1 ♀;
13-v-2010
, 2 ♀;
17-xi-2010
, 2 ♀;
01-xii-2010
,
1 ♂
;
19-i-2011
, 2 ♀;
20-i-2011
, 3 ♀;
08-ii-2011
, 2 ♀;
10-ii-2011
, 2 ♀. Loma Bonita,
16-i-2010
, 1 ♀;
19-iii-2010
, 1 ♀;
20-iii-2010
, 3 ♀;
22-iv-2010
, 1 ♀;
14-v-2010
, 1 ♀;
16-v-2010
,
1 ♂
, 1 ♀;
23-x-2010
, 1 ♀;
21-i-2011
, 1 ♀;
22-i-2011
, 2 ♀;
18-iii-2011
, 2 ♀;
19-iii-2011
, 2 ♀;
20-iii-2011
, 2 ♀;
08-vi-2011
,
1 ♂
;
20-vii-2011
, 1 ♀. Collected with
CDC
light traps.
FIGURES 12–15.
Psychodopygus bispinosus
(Fairchild & Hertig, 1951)
, male. 12) Head, frontal view; 13) Flagellomere 2 and 3; 14) Wing; 15) Terminalia, lateral view. Scales in millimeters.
Additional material collected with Magoon traps.
MEXICO
: CHIAPAS:
Guadalupe
Miramar,
16-vi-2009
, 1 ♀. Loma Bonita,
21-iv-2010
, 1♀.
Distribution.
MEXICO
(Chiapas, Veracruz) (Ibáñez-Bernal
et al
. 2011),
GUATEMALA
,
BELIZE
(Ibáñez- Bernal 2001,
Young & Duncan 1994
,
Galati 2003
).
Remarks.
The male of
Da.
permira
is easely to separate from other species of
Dampfomyia
by the characteristic morphology of the parameres. This is not the case for females, as
Da. leohidalgoi
(
Ibáñez-Bernal, Hernández-Xoliot & Mendoza, 2006
) is very similar, only differentiated by the relative length of the spermathecal ducts.
Da.
permira
has spermathecal projections smaller and finger-like, similar to those of
Da. leohidalgoi
, but the individual ducts of
Da.
permira
are comparatively short and broad. Females apparently feed on the blood of small mammals.