Checklist of American sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae): genera, species, and their distribution.

Paloma Helena Fernandes Shimabukuro,Andrey José de Andrade,Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati

doi:10.3897/zookeys.660.10508

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Journal: ZooKeys	Publication Date: Mar 8, 2017
Citations: 88	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Federal University of Paraná

Abstract

Phlebotomine sand flies are dipteran insects of medical importance because many species are involved in the transmission of pathogens between human and non-human animals. A total of 530 American species of sand flies is presented in an updated checklist, along with their author(s) and year of publication using the classification by Galati (1995, 2003). Distribution by country is also provided.

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Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) are medically important insects involved in the transmission of arboviruses, bacteria and protozoan parasites among human and non-human animals (Rangel and Lainson 2009).There are approximately 1,000 valid described species of sand flies in the world of which 530 are known to occur in the Americas
The aim of this work is to provide a checklist of valid Phlebotominae species of the Neotropical and Nearctic regions, together with their distribution by country, Checklist of American sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae)
The list contains information updated until December, 2016, and data was collated from our own work with sand fly taxonomy, literature surveys, and studies of sand flies deposited in different entomological collections: (i) Coleção de Flebotomíneos (FIOCRUZ/ COLFLEB); (ii) Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP); (iii) Coleção de Referência da Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP–USP); (iv) Coleção Entomológica do Laboratório de Entomologia em Saúde Pública (FSP–USP–LESP–Phlebotominae); (v) Coleção da Seção de Parasitologia do Instituto Butantan (IBut); (vi) Coleção de Flebotomíneos do Instituto Evandro Chagas (COLFlebIEC); (vii) Natural History Museum, London (NHM)

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Introduction

There are approximately 1,000 valid described species of sand flies in the world of which 530 are known to occur in the Americas. The systematics of sand flies has been based on the division of species into few genera (Fairchild 1955, Theodor 1965, Lewis et al 1977, Young and Duncan 1994). Based on an extensive comparative analysis of characters, Theodor (1965) made an attempt to define groups of American sand flies, but preferred not to give nomenclatorial rank to them, suggesting these groupings might change taxonomic status with future studies. Young and Duncan (1994) amended the classification of Lewis et al (1977), becoming the most widely adopted by those working with sand flies

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