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26 February 2020 New Records of Phlebotomine Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) From the Western Brazilian Amazon and the Description of the Female of Pintomyia fiocruzi
Glaucilene da Silva Costa, Antonio Marques Pereira Júnior, Felipe Arley Costa Pessoa, Paloma Helena Fernandes Shimabukuro, Jansen Fernandes Medeiros
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An entomological survey was conducted in several localities of Rondônia State, and new records were obtained for seven sand fly species: Evandromyia apurinan Shimabukuro, Figueira & Silva, 2013, Evandromyia carmelinoi (Ryan, Fraiha, Lainson & Shaw, 1986), Micropygomyia echinatopharynxAndrade-Filho, Galati, Andrade & Falcão, 2004, Nyssomyia urbinattiiGalati & Galvis, 2012, Pintomyia duckeiOliveira, Alencar & Freitas, 2018, Psathyromyia pradobarrientosi (Le Pont, Matias, Martinez & Dujardin, 2004), and Sciopemyia vattierae (Le Pont & Desjeux, 1992). Herein, we also describe the female of Pintomyia fiocruzi Pereira Júnior, Pessoa, Marivalva & Medeiros, 2019. The female has spermathecae with a detached apical ring similar to the spermathecae of Pintomyia serrana (Damasceno & Arouck, 1949), Pintomyia odax (Fairchild & Hertig, 1961), Pintomyia ottolinai (Ortiz & Scorza, 1963), and Pintomyia robusta (Galati, Cáceres & Le Pont, 1995). Here, we provide characters to separate Pi. fiocruzi from Pi. serrana and Pi. odax. Pintomyia ottolinai has a trans-Andean distribution and Pi. robusta has not been found in Brazil and in our studies, we associated the females found in this study with Pi. fiocruzi males found at the same collection sites. Our findings highlight the importance of entomological fauna surveys and demonstrate the need for taxonomists to study species diversity in Rondônia. This study increases the number of sand fly species recorded in Rondônia to 143.

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Glaucilene da Silva Costa, Antonio Marques Pereira Júnior, Felipe Arley Costa Pessoa, Paloma Helena Fernandes Shimabukuro, and Jansen Fernandes Medeiros "New Records of Phlebotomine Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) From the Western Brazilian Amazon and the Description of the Female of Pintomyia fiocruzi," Journal of Medical Entomology 57(4), 1328-1333, (26 February 2020). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa030
Received: 12 November 2019; Accepted: 28 January 2020; Published: 26 February 2020
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KEYWORDS
biodiversity
medical entomology
Rondônia State
survey
taxonomy
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