Micropygomyia (Coquillettimyia) oppidana ( Dampf 1944 )

Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, Suárez-Landa, Teresa & Mendoza, Fredy, 2011, An updated checklist of the phlebotomine sand flies of Veracruz, Mexico (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae), Zootaxa 2928, pp. 29-40 : 32

Micropygomyia (Coquillettimyia) oppidana ( Dampf 1944)

(= Lutzomyia (Helcocyrthomyia) oppidana ( Dampf 1944) sensu Young and Duncan 1994 )

Phlebotomus oppidanus Dampf 1944 , 247 (male). Type-Locality: Mexico, Distrito Federal, San Jacinto.

Lutzomyia (Helcocyrthomyia) oppidana (Dampf) : Young and Duncan 1994, 725 (keys, taxonomy); Ibáñez-Bernal 2003, 134 (diagnosis, references); 2005a, 64 (males key, Mexican species), 2005b, 208 (females key, Mexican species).

Micropygomyia (Coquillettimyia) oppidana (Dampf) : Galati 2003, 33, 81, 82 (list, male and female keys).

This species was known from Canada (Alberta, British Columbia), USA (Colorado, Montana, Texas, Washington) ( Young y Perkins, 1984) and Mexico (Distrito Federal, Nuevo León) ( Martins et al., 1978; Ibáñez-Bernal, 2003). Ibáñez-Bernal et al. (2006) recorded this species in the state of Veracruz, with specimens collected in El Zapotal (Municipality of Colipa). The following is a new municipality record.

Material examined. Mexico: Veracruz, Municipality of Misantla, Paso Blanco, 25-02-2008, coffee plantation, Malaise trap, Brig. Ent. IV, col., 1 female.