Phlebotomus (Paraphlebotomus) saevus Parrot & Martin, 1939

Rioux, Jean-Antoine, Gramiccia, Marina, Léger, Nicole, Desjeux, Philippe & Depaquit, Jérôme, 2020, Leishmaniasis and phlebotomine sand flies in Oman Sultanate, Parasite (Paris, France) 27 (68), pp. 1-13 : 7

Phlebotomus (Paraphlebotomus) saevus Parrot & Martin, 1939

The male of Ph. saevus has a straight, non-hooked parameral sheath, a large basal lobe of the gonocoxite, with a weakly dilated distal portion carrying many long and slightly curved setae.

The Ph. saevus female is difficult to distinguish from that of Ph. sergenti. Its pharyngeal armature is well developed and contains more teeth than those of Ph. sergenti ( Fig. 4 ).

Ph. saevus has a distribution including East Africa and Arabia. In Oman, this is its first record. We caught Ph. saevus only in Dhofar (Djebel Quara), at the Dh3 capture site, an isolated farm where a female patient with leishmaniasis caused by L. tropica (LCO 4) lived.

Ph. saevus is a vector suspected of transmitting L. tropica in households where Ph. sergenti is absent, like in Kenya [ 45] or Yemen [ 14].

Figures

Figure 4. Pharynx of Ph. saevus (A), Ph. sergenti (B) and cibarium of Se. baghdadis (C).