Lutzomyia diamantinensis sp. nov., a new phlebotomine species (Diptera: Psychodidae) from a quartzite cave in Diamantina, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil



Document title: Lutzomyia diamantinensis sp. nov., a new phlebotomine species (Diptera: Psychodidae) from a quartzite cave in Diamantina, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Journal: Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000357357
ISSN: 0074-0276
Authors: 1
2
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Institutions: 1Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Diamantina, Minas Gerais. Brasil
2Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Centro de Pesquisas Rene Rachou, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Brasil
Year:
Season: Dic
Volumen: 107
Number: 8
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Experimental, aplicado
English abstract A new species of Brazilian phlebotomine sandfly found in Brazil, municipality of Diamantina, state of Minas Gerais, is described based on males and females collected in a quartzite cave. The body of spermathecae is continuous to the individual duct, lanky and tapering at the end, with conical shaped, not striated and presenting the head with dense setae. The male presents gonostyle with four spines and a small subterminal seta and gonocoxite with one group of persistent setae. The paramere is simple with a group of small setae on the dorsal apex. The morphological features of this new species permit its inclusion in the migonei group
Disciplines: Biología
Keyword: Insectos,
Taxonomía y sistemática,
Nuevas especies,
Descripción taxonómica,
Lutzomyia diamantinensis,
Diptera,
Brasil
Keyword: Biology,
Insects,
Taxonomy and systematics,
New species,
Taxonomic description,
Lutzomyia diamantinensis,
Diptera,
Brazil
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