Psathyromyia (Psathyromyia) dasymera Fairchild & Hertig 1961
Creators: name: Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio
name: Muñoz, José
name: Rebollar-Téllez, Eduardo A.
name: Pech-May, Agelica
name: Marina, Carlos F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Psychodidae
Psathyromyia
Psathyromyia dasymera

description: Psathyromyia (Psathyromyia) dasymera (Fairchild & Hertig 1961) (series shannoni)
Phlebotomus dasymerus Fairchild & Hertig, 1961b: 242 (♂, ♀). Type locality: Panama, Canal Zone, Ft. Sherman Reservation, Camp Pina.
Lutzomyia dasymera (Fairchild & Hertig): Barretto, 1962: 99; Theodor, 1965: 194 (listed as species group Castanheirai); Martins et al., 1978: 154 (as species group Dreisbachi, references, distribution); Young, 1979: 111 (references); Feliciangeli, 1980: 246 (Venezuela records); Biancardi et al., 1982: 168 (Brazil records); Christensen et al., 1983: 466 (Panama records); Murillo & Zeledón, 1985: 87 (Costa Rica records); Feliciangeli, 1988: 107 (Venezuela records); Alexander et al., 1992a: 36 (Ecuador records); Alexander et al., 1992b: 124 (Ecuador records).
Lutzomyia (Trichopygomyia) dasymera (Fairchild & Hertig): Forattini, 1971: 102; Forattini, 1973: 305.
Lutzomyia (Psathyromyia) dasymera (Fairchild & Hertig): Young & Duncan, 1994: 342 (references, taxonomy, distribution); Ibáñez-Bernal, 2002: 151.
Psathyromyia (Psathyromyia) dasymera (Fairchild & Hertig): Galati, 2003: 43, 114, 115 (list, keys).
Diagnosis. Male: gonocoxite without tuft of perennial setae; gonostylus with 4 spiniform setae, two basal at same level just before middle, one preapical in the apical fourth and one apical, without preapical fine seta; paramere with a basal ventral hump and very close to it posteriorly a ventral short protuberance with about 10 specialized setae and apex curved as a hook. Female: cibarium with about 10 horizontal teeth and about 10 longitudinal rows of vertical teeth, pigmented area large and cibarial arch complete; spermatheca cylindrical with broad capitulum which is as wide as the spermatheca; spermatecal individual ducts long about 3.5X the length of spermatheca, individual spermathecal duct very short as long as one-half the length of spermatheca (Fairchild & Hertig 1961; Young & Duncan 1994; Galati 2003).
Material examined. MEXICO: CHIAPAS: Loma Bonita, 20-iii-2010, 1 ♂. Collected with CDC light trap.
Distribution. MEXICO (Chiapas); BELIZE; NICARAGUA; COSTA RICA (Murillo & Zeledón 1985); PANAMA; COLOMBIA; VENEZUELA (Martins et al. 1978; Young 1979; Feliciangeli 1988); BRAZIL (Biancardi et al. 1982); ECUADOR (Alexander et al. 1992a, Alexander et al. 1992b) (Young & Duncan 1994).
Remarks. Female of Pa. dasymera cannot be separated from that of Pa. campbelli (Damasceno, Causey & Arouck), but the male can be distinguished by the simple apex of the ejaculatory filaments, as Pa. campbelli has the apex modified with short setae; the female is as well similar, but Pa. campbelli has the individual spermathecal ducts with the half near the spermatheca more sclerotized and striated. Psathyromyia dasymera is rare in Mexico, as only the specimens saw by Fairchild & Hertig (1961) were known. Female feeding habits are not known but they are not anthropophilous.
description: Published as part of Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, Muñoz, José, Rebollar-Téllez, Eduardo A., Pech-May, Agelica & Marina, Carlos F., 2015, Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of Chiapas collected near the Guatemala border, with additions to the fauna of Mexico and a new subgenus name, pp. 151-186 in Zootaxa 3994 (2) on page 173, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/239180