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Issue: Vol. 3994 No. 2: 31 Jul. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-07-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.2.1
Page range: 151–186
Abstract views: 71
PDF downloaded: 2

Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of Chiapas collected near the Guatemala border, with additions to the fauna of Mexico and a new subgenus name

Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Red Ambiente y Sustentabilidad, Laboratorio de Sistemática y Ecología de Insectos con Interés Médico y Veterinario. Carretera Antigua a Coatepec No. 351, El Haya, Xalapa, 91070, Veracruz, México.
Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública. 19 Poniente Esq. 4ª. Ave. Norte, Col. Centro, 30700 Tapachula, Chiapas, México
Laboratorio de Entomología Médica, Departamento de Zoología de Invertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, UANL. San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, México
Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública. 19 Poniente Esq. 4ª. Ave. Norte, Col. Centro, 30700 Tapachula, Chiapas, México
Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública. 19 Poniente Esq. 4ª. Ave. Norte, Col. Centro, 30700 Tapachula, Chiapas, México
taxonomy fauna new records leishmaniasis vectors

Abstract

Collections from four localities, two of the High Plateau and two of the Eastern Mountains Municipality of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, included 26 species with four new species records for Mexico: Lutzomyia (Helcocyrtomyia) hartmanni (Fairchild & Hertig, 1957), Dampfomyia (Coromyia) disneyi (Williams, 1987), Psychodopygus bispinosus (Fairchild & Hertig, 1951), and Psychodopygus corossoniensis (LePont & Pajot, 1978). These records represent an updated total of 50 species in Mexico, 48 of which are extant species and the remaining two fossils. The name Xiphopsathyromyia n. n. is proposed in substitution of Xiphomyia Artemiev, 1991, a homonym of Xiphomyia Townsend, 1917, a genus of Tachinidae (Diptera).