Brumptomyia guimaraesi (Coutinho & Barreto)

Canneva, Bruno, 2019, A new species of Laurenceomyia Wagner & Stuckenberg, with a key to species and new records for Psychodidae (Diptera) from Uruguay, Zootaxa 4544 (3), pp. 407-418 : 410

Brumptomyia guimaraesi (Coutinho & Barreto)

Figs. 2A, B

Phlebotomus guimaraesi Coutinho & Barreto, 1941: 78 (male, female).

First record from Uruguay. 1♀ Paysandú, 32°20'26"S; 58°5'43"W, 9 December 2015.

Remarks. Brumptomyia is a genus of sandflies, which feed on blood from armadillos ( Forattini 1973; Young & Duncan 1994), and do not bite humans, being of no medical concern. The genus presents complete interocular suture ( Figure 2A ) and cibarium with four rows of teeth. According to Galati (2014), males and females of Br. guimaraesi can be differentiated from the rest of the 26 species of the genus, by the absence of inferior anepisternal setae and presence of anepimeral setae ( Figure 2B ). This species is also distributed in Panamá, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina ( Forattini 1973; Galati 2014).

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FIGURE 2. Photomicrographies of morphological characters. A) Brumptomyia guimaraesi ♀ head. B) B. guimaraesi ♀ thorax, circles show absence of inferior anepisternal setae and presence of anepimeral setae. C) Nyssomyia neivai ♀ tip of lacinia. D) Ny. neivai ♀ palps. E) Ny. neivai ♀ cibarium. F) Paramormia furcata ♀ subgenital plate. G) Psychoda savaiiensis ♀ subgenital plate. H) Psychoda zetoscota ♀ subgenital plate.