Lutzomyia (Helcocyrtomyia) hartmanni ( Fairchild & Hertig, 1957 )

Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, Muñoz, José, Rebollar-Téllez, Eduardo A., Pech-May, Agelica & Marina, Carlos F., 2015, Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of Chiapas collected near the Guatemala border, with additions to the fauna of Mexico and a new subgenus name, Zootaxa 3994 (2), pp. 151-186 : 159-161

Lutzomyia (Helcocyrtomyia) hartmanni ( Fairchild & Hertig, 1957)

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Phlebotomus hartmanni Fairchild & Hertig, 1957: 328 (♂, ♀). Type locality: Panama, Cerro Campana.

Lutzomyia hartmanni (Fairchild & Hertig) : Barretto, 1962: 96 (listed); Martins et al., 1978: 79 (references, distribution); Young, 1979: 199 (references, figures); Morales et al., 1981: 201 ( Colombia); Christensen et al., 1983: 466 ( Panama); Young & Rogers, 1984: 599 ( Ecuador); Murillo & Zeledón, 1985: 99 ( Costa Rica); Alexander et al., 1992a: 37 ( Ecuador).

Psychodopygus hartmanni (Fairchild & Hertig) : Forattini, 1971a: 105; Forattini, 1973: 466 (taxonomy).

Lutzomyia (Helcocyrtomyia) hartmanni (Fairchild & Hertig) : Young & Duncan, 1994: 728 (taxonomy, references, distribution); Galati, 2003: 35 (listed as series sanguinaria, keys).

Diagnosis. Clypeus at most 0.3 times the length head. Male: gonocoxite with a basal tuft of 1 to 4 setae, of which one is large and the other if present very small; nearly all specimens observed from Mexico has only the large setae; gonostylus with the internal spiniform setae originated at middle of structure; wing with delta small or similar than 0.33 the alpha length; diameter of the basal apex of ejaculatory apodeme about 4.0 times the diameter of ejaculatory apodeme at middle; lateral lobe shortest than gonocoxite. Female: palpal segment 5 as long or shortest than 1.25 the length of 3 segment; spermatheca thin, the apical annulus as wide as the preceding one; individual spermathecal ducts longer than spermatheca ( Galati 2003).

Material examined. MEXICO: CHIAPAS: Guadalupe Miramar, 12-viii-2009, 2 ♂; 18-ii-2010, 2 ♂; 19-iii- 2010, 3 ♂; 20-iv-2010, 3 ♂; 22-iv-2010, 2 ♂; 11-v-2010, 1 ♂; 12-v-2010, 10 ♂; 15-v-2010, 1 ♂; 13-v-2010, 3 ♂; 21-iv-2010, 1♀; 11-v-2010, 1 ♀; 12-v-2010, 2 ♀; 15-vi-2010, 1 ♂; 11-viii-2010, 6 ♂; 20-x-2010, 1 ♂; 16-xi-2010, 3 ♂; 17-xi-2010, 1♂; 02-xii-2010, 2 ♂; 19-i-2011, 1 ♂; 20-i-2011, 1 ♂; 08-ii-2011, 1 ♂; 15-iii-2011, 1 ♂. Loma Bonita, 16-i-2010, 2 ♀; 19-ii-2010, 1 ♀; 20-iii-2010, 1 ♂. Collected with CDC light traps.

Distribution. COSTA RICA, PANAMA, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, and PERU ( Galati 2003). This is the first record in MEXICO.

Remarks. One specimen from Guadalupe Miramar, show a teratology in the gonostylus as it presents two median setae, so the spiniform setae formula of gonostylus is 2+ 1+ 2+ 1 in both sides. All other diagnostic characters correspond to Lu. (Hel.) hartmanni . Females of this species are anthropophilous.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 6. Lutzomyia (Helcocyrtomyia) hartmanni (Fairchild & Hertig, 1957), male. 1) Head, frontal view; 2) Palpal segment 3, right; 3) Flagellomere 2; 4) Wing; 5) Paramere; 6) Terminalia, lateral view. Scales in millimeters.