NOTES ON THE PHLEBOTOMINE SAND FLIES FROM THE PERUVIAN SOUTHEAST - I - DESCRIPTION OF LUTZOMYIA (HELCOCYRTOMYIA) ADAMSI N. SP. (DIPTERA, PSYCHODIDAE)

Citation
R. Fernandez et al., NOTES ON THE PHLEBOTOMINE SAND FLIES FROM THE PERUVIAN SOUTHEAST - I - DESCRIPTION OF LUTZOMYIA (HELCOCYRTOMYIA) ADAMSI N. SP. (DIPTERA, PSYCHODIDAE), Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 93(1), 1998, pp. 41-44
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine",Parasitiology
ISSN journal
00740276
Volume
93
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
41 - 44
Database
ISI
SICI code
0074-0276(1998)93:1<41:NOTPSF>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
A new species of phlebotomine sand fly, Lutzomyia adamsi n. sp., is de scribed and illustrated from specimens collected during August 1994, i n Sandia, Department of Puno-Peru. According to the Oficina Nacional d e Evaluacion de Recursos Naturales(ONERN 1976), this locality is situa ted in the life zone known as humid, mountain, low tropical forest (bh -MBT). Many areas in the northern part of Puno, mainly in the Inambari and Tambopata basins, are endemic to leishmaniasis. These areas are t he continuation of others, largely known as ''leishmaniasic'' in the d epartments of Cusco and Madre de Dies. The morphological characteristi cs indicated that this species belongs to the genus Lutzomyia,subgenus Helcocyrtomyia Barretto, 1962.