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Published on: November 17, 2020
NEW RECORDS OF PHLEBOTOMINE SAND FLIES (DIPTERA: PSYCHODIDAE) FROM ECUADOR
Lynn A Jones1, Lee W Cohnstaedt, Lorenza Beati
1(LAJ, LEM) Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 U.S.A. (LEM); (LWC) Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Gainesville, Florida 32608 U.S.A.; (LB) Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30460, U.S.A.; (RT, RL) Institute of Microbiology, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito 17-1200-841, Ecuador.
Abstract:
The number of recorded phlebotomine sand fly species in Ecuador has nearly doubled during the past 20 years as a result of surveys. In 2005, a sand fly survey of two localities, Tiputini in the Amazon rain forest and Paraiso Escondido in the Pacific coastal lowland forest, resulted in the capture of 25 species. New records for Ecuador consisted of five species from the Amazonian region and one from Paraiso Escondido. The Amazonian species were Nyssomyia richardwardi (Ready and Fraiha), Psathyromyia dreisbachi (Causey and Damasceno), Psathyromyia runoides (Fairchild and Hertig), Trichophoromyia pabloi (Barretto, Burbano and Young), and Trichopygomyia witoto (Young and Morales). The Pacific coastal lowland species was Psathyromyia punctigeniculata (Floch and Abonnenc).
