Evandromyia chacuensis
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| Evandromyia chacuensis Szelag, Rosa, Galati, Andrade Filho & Salomón, 2018
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Evandromyia chacuensis is a species of sand fly first circumscribed in 2018 from specimens collected in Argentina.[1] It is the 12th species currently described in the subgenus Barrettomyia.[2]
Morphology[edit]
The males and females are both about 2-3mm in length, medium in size when compared to other phlebotomines, and light brown in general color.[1]
Distribution[edit]
The type specimens were collected in three municipalities of Argentina's Chaco province: Misión Nueva Pompeya in the Dry Chaco ecoregion in the north of the province, and Colonia Benítez and Resistencia in the Humid Chaco ecoregion in the south of the province.[1]
Medical importance[edit]
Sand flies of the genus Evandromyia are among the most numerous and widely distributed sand flies in Argentina, so this new species may be found to play a role in the numerous leishmaniasis outbreaks that have occurred over the past 20 years in the Chaco bioregion, where an increasing number of cases are associated with periurban transmission.[1] Some species of phlebotomine sand flies are able to transmit the causative agents of Bartonelloses and phleboviral diseases to susceptible mammalian hosts.[citation needed]
Etymology[edit]
The new species name chacuensis was derived from the Quechua word "chacú", connoting a name of a hunting territory or a hunting technique, from which the Hispanic place name Chaco was derived,[1] and the Latin adjectival suffix "-ensis," meaning “originating in.”
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Juan R. Rosa, Eunice A. B. Galati, José D. Andrade Filho, and Oscar D. Salomón. 2018. Considerations on the Species Complex of the Cortelezzii series (Diptera: Psychodidae) and Description of Evandromyia chacuensis sp. nov., a New Phlebotomine Species of the Chaco Region, Argentina. Journal of Medical Entomology, tjy039, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjy039, published 06 April 2018.
- ^ Paloma Helena Fernandes Shimabukuro, Andrey José de Andrade, and Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati. 2017. Checklist of American sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae): genera, species, and their distribution. ZooKeys. 2017; (660): 67–106. Published online 2017 Mar 8. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.660.10508, PMC 5549530, PMID 28794674.