Dampfomyia delpozoi (Vargas & Díaz-Nájera, 1953) (species group delpozoi)

Phlebotomus del-pozoi Vargas & Díaz-Nájera, 1953a: 42 (♂, ♀). Type-locality: Mexico, Chiapas, Mariscal.

Lutzomyia delpozoi (Vargas & Díaz-Nájera): Theodor, 1965: 196; Young & Duncan, 1994: 243 (as species group delpozoi; taxonomy, keys, figures); Ibáñez-Bernal, 2001a: 29 (type specimens review, figures); Ibáñez-Bernal, 2005a: 51, 54 (records, male key); Ibáñez-Bernal, 2005b: 202 (female key).

Pressatia delpozoi (Vargas & Díaz-Nájera): Forattini, 1971a: 106; 1973: 515 (figs.).

Dampfomyia delpozoi (Vargas & Díaz-Nájera) species group delpozoi: Galati, 2003: 39, 102 (list, keys).

Diagnosis. Male: Gonocoxite shortest than lateral lobe, basally with a modified robust setae and internally with sclerotization; gonostylus with 4 spiniform setae all situated at different levels, the basal one in basal third; preapical fine seta present; paramere with acute apex and with lateral fold, without acute projection in dorsal margin (not considering the terminalia inversion). Female: without characters to separate from other species of this species-group (Galati 2003, Young & Duncan 1994).

Material examined. MEXICO: CHIAPAS: Guadalupe Miramar, 09-xii-2009, 1 ♀; 22-iv-2010, 1 ♀; 12-v-2010, 1 ♂; 13-viii-2010, 1 ♀; 08-ii-2011, 1 ♀; 16-iii-2011, 1 ♀; 17-iii-2011, 2 ♀. Loma Bonita, 19-ii-2010, 1 ♀.

Distribution. MEXICO (Chiapas) (Ibáñez-Bernal 2001), BELIZE, GUATEMALA (Young & Duncan 1994).

Remarks. Females of this species group cannot be separated. Females are recorded here as Da. delpozoi because we found them in relation to males. Female feeding habits are unknown, although they appeared to not be anthropophilous.