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Autogeny in the neotropical sand fly Lutzomyia lichyi (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Colombia
1Seccion Entomologia, Fundacion Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas, CIDEIM, Cali, Colombia.
Journal of Medical Entomology
|July 1, 1992
Abstract:
Host-seeking females of the anthropophilic sand fly, Lutzomyia lichyi (Floch & Abonnenc), collected in Valle, Colombia, were invariably parous. All progeny of these insects reared in the laboratory were autogenous for the first ovarian cycle, producing fertile eggs without a blood meal. The importance of autogeny in Leishmania transmission is discussed briefly.