Micropygomyia (Sauromyia) trinidadensis ( Newstead, 1922 )

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 : 156-157

Micropygomyia (Sauromyia) trinidadensis ( Newstead, 1922) (series oswaldoi )

Phlebotomus trinidadensis Newstead, 1922: 47 (♂, ♀). Type locality: Trinidad. Additional references: Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a: 253 (references, taxonomy).

Phlebotomus yucatanensis Galliard, 1934a: 1 (♂, ♀). Type locality: Mexico, Yucatán, near Chichen Itzá. Additional references: Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a: 255 (as synonym of trinidadensis ).

Phlebotomus yucatanensis var. baduelensis Floch & Abonnenc, 1941a: 4 (♂). Type locality: French Guiana, Baduel). Additional references: Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a: 255 (as synonym of trinidadensis ).

Phlebotomus villelai Mangabeira, 1942a: 196 (♂). Type locality: Brazil, Ceara and Pará. Additional references: Barretto, 1946b: 527 (as synonym of baduelensis ); Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a: 255 (as synonym of trinidadensis ).

Phlebotomus baduelensis Floch & Abonnenc, 1944e: 1 (♂, ♀). Type locality: French Guiana. Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a: 255 (as synonym of trinidadensis ); Floch & Abonnenc, 1952: 163.

Lutzomyia trinidadensis (Newstead) : Young & Duncan, 1994: 683 (as species group Oswaldoi , taxonomic history, figures, keys, taxonomy). Additional references: Ibáñez-Bernal, 2003: 130 (diagnosis, references); Rebollar-Téllez et al., 2004: 285 (Campeche records), Rebollar-Téllez et al., 2006: 24 (Yucatan records), May-Uc et al., 2011: 279 (Quintana Roo records).

Micropygomyia (Sauromyia) trinidadensis (Newstead) : Galati, 2003: 33 (listed).

Diagnosis. Male: Clypeus longer than 0.3 of the total length of head; apodeme and ejaculatory pump about 3.5 the length of the ejaculatory ducts, these with simple not modified apex; paramere suddenly sharpened at middle; lateral lobe shorter than gonocoxite; gonocoxite without a consolidated tuft of setae, but with about 7 isolated perennial fine setae distributed at middle; gonostylus with the basal spiniform setae robust, similar in length and at same level (2+1+2). Female: cibarium with a dome-shaped protuberance, two pairs of horizontal teeth which are more separated at middle and without vertical teeth or at least difficult to see; pharynx with spines; spermathecae banana-shaped, walls smooth ( Young & Duncan 1994, Galati 2003).

Material examined. MEXICO: CHIAPAS: Loma Bonita, 06-vii-2010, CDC light trap, 1 ♀. Distribution. MEXICO (Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Yucatán) ( Ibáñez-Bernal 2003; Ibáñez-Bernal 2005a), BELIZE, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA, TRINIDAD, FRENCH GUYANA, ECUADOR, PERU, BRAZIL, BOLIVIA ( Martins et al. 1978; Young & Duncan 1994).

Remarks. This species was not abundant in the studied specimens. This species is not anthropophilous, with females feeding on ectothermic vertebrates (Tesh et al. 1971).