geniculata (Mangabeira), 1941b: 245 (Flebotomus). L., P., M., F. Type locality: Brazil, Pará, Belém, Aurá. Type material: not extant (Shimabukuro & Galati 2011). Distr.: Colombia (Amazonas, Caquetá, Chocó, Guaviare (Cabrera et al. 2009), Meta, Putumayo), Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Nicaragua (Zeledón & Murillo 1983, Collantes & Martínez-Ortega 1998), Panama, Peru, Venezuela. Refs.: CIPA group 1999 (tax., distr., ecol., refs.); Bejarano 2006a: 53 (Colombian Psychodidae checklist).