Lutzomyia (Trichophoromyia) pastazaensis, a new species of phlebotomine sand fly (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) from the Peruvian Amazon

Abstract

The phlebotomine sand fly Lutzomyia pastazaensis n. sp. is described and illustrated from specimens collected from the edge of primary forest near Andoas, Department of Loreto, Peru (03º00'S, 76º05'W). This species appears to belong to the subgenus Trichophoromyia Barreto 1962, whose members are generally restricted to the Amazon Basin

Description of <I>Lutzomyia (Trichophoromyia) pabloi</I> n. sp. and the Female of <I>L. howardi</I> (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Colombia

“…The paramere of L. pabloi resembles that of L. napoensis Young and Rogers (1984), from nearby Limoncocha, Ecuador, but the setation is different and the later species has two groups of median simple setae on the coxite. Lutzomyia pastazaensis Fernandez, Carbajal, Alexander & Need (1993) has Ͼ20 setae of three sizes in the middle of the coxite and the paramere is different. Lutzomyia pabloi was the only species of the subgenus captured at the different places mentioned above and we believe that the sexes are properly associated.…”