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Issue: Vol. 2448 No. 1: 7 May. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-05-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2448.1.2
Page range: 26–34
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 29

Two new species of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) from Quintana Roo, Mexico

Instituto de Ecología, A. C. Red Ambiente y Sustentabilidad. Carretera antigua a Coatepec No. 351, El Haya, Xalapa, C.P. 91070, Veracruz, MÉXICO
Museo de Zoología, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Unidad Chetumal, Avenida Centenario km 5.5 Chetumal, Quintana Roo, CP. 77014, México
Laboratorio de Entomología Médica, Departamento de Zoología de Invertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Unidad “B, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. Ciudad Universitaria, Apartado Postal 109-F, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, C.P. 66457 México
Diptera Sand flies taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of phlebotomine sand flies from Quintana Roo, Mexico are described and illustrated following the classification proposal of Galati (2003). Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) itza Ibáñez-Bernal, May-Uc and Rebollar-Tellez sp. nov., is described based on four male specimens, whereas Psathyromyia (Psathyromyia) maya Ibáñez-Bernal, May-Uc and Rebollar-Tellez sp. nov., is described based on seven female specimens. Pintomyia (Pif.) itza clearly belongs to the verrucarum series, and is the only species of this series known to occur outside South America. Psathyromyia (Psa.) maya belongs to the lanei series which was previously known only from Brazil and Paraguay.

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