A new species of Cerqueirellum Py-Daniel, 1983 (Diptera: Simuliidae) and proven new vector of mansonelliasis from the Ituxi River, Amazon basin, Brazil

Acta Amazonica

Felipe Arley Costa Pessoa²  Ulysses Carvalho Barbosa¹  Jansen Fernandes Medeiros¹ 

[1] ,FIOCRUZ Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane Manaus AM ,Brazil

关键词: Amazônia;    Cerqueirellum;    Mansonella ozzardi;    Simuliidae;    taxonomy;    Amazônia;    Cerqueirellum;    Mansonella ozzardi;    Simuliidae;    taxonomia;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0044-59672008000300022

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

A new species of the genus Cerqueirellum Py-Daniel, 1983 (Diptera: Simuliidae) is described. The adults are similar to the species C. oyapockense (Floch & Abonnenc, 1946) and C. roraimense (Nunes de Mello, 1974), of which the females are similar, and the males present discrete differences. The main differences of this new species to others of the genus Cerqueirellum are the integument of the larva recovered from stout spines and long cephalic trichomes in the pupa. Some females were infected with Mansonella ozzardii (Manson, 1897) (Nematoda, Onchocercidae) and probably transmit mansonelliasis in the Ituxi river, state of Amazonas, Brazil.

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