Lutzomyia maruaga (Diptera: Psychodidae), a new bat-cave sand fly from Amazonas, Brazil

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Veracilda Ribeiro Alves¹  Rui Alves De Freitas²  Toby Barrett² 

[1] ,Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da AmazôniaManaus Amazonas ,Brasil

关键词: Phlebotominae taxonomy;    new species;    cave fauna;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02762008005000012

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

A new species of parthenogenetic, autogenic and apparently extremely endemic phlebotomine is described from a sandstone cave located in primary terra firme forest to the North of the city of Manaus. Specimens were collected in the aphotic zone of the Refúgio do Maruaga cave by light trap and reared from bat guano. The adult morphology suggests a closer relationship to some Old World Phlebotominae than to species of Lutzomyia França encountered in the surrounding rainforest, but it shares characteristics with the recently proposed Neotropical genera Edentomyia Galati, Deanemyia Galati and Oligodontomyia Galati.

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