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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 94, No. 5, 1999, pp. 629-633
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Bioline Code: oc99116
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 94, No. 5, 1999, pp. 629-633
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Lutzomyia derelicta (Diptera: Psychodidae) a Singular New Phlebotomine Sand Fly from an Inselberg in Northeastern Amazonia
Rui A Freitas & Toby V Barrett
Abstract
Lutzomyia derelicta n. sp. is described from specimens collected in an isolated xeric
habitat in the rainforest in the north of the State of Pará, Brazil. The new species
lacks the posterior bulge in the dorsal wall of the cibarium characteristic of the New World
genus Lutzomyia, and the armature of the male genitalia is of the pattern found
elsewhere only in the Old World species of Sergentomyia. L. derelicta is phenetically
intermediate between the known species of Lutzomyia and Sergentomyia,
and cannot readily be placed in any existing subgenus or species group of either genus.
Keywords
Phlebotominae - new species - biogeography - Amazônia
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