Micropygomyia (Sauromyia) trinidadensis Newstead 1922
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
Micropygomyia
Micropygomyia trinidadensis

description: Micropygomyia (Sauromyia) trinidadensis (Newstead, 1922) (series oswaldoi)
Phlebotomus trinidadensis Newstead, 1922: 47 (♂, ♀). Type locality: Trinidad. Additional references: Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a: 253 (references, taxonomy).
Phlebotomus yucatanensis Galliard, 1934a: 1 (♂, ♀). Type locality: Mexico, Yucatán, near Chichen Itzá. Additional references: Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a: 255 (as synonym of trinidadensis).
Phlebotomus yucatanensis var. baduelensis Floch & Abonnenc, 1941a: 4 (♂). Type locality: French Guiana, Baduel). Additional references: Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a: 255 (as synonym of trinidadensis).
Phlebotomus villelai Mangabeira, 1942a: 196 (♂). Type locality: Brazil, Ceara and Pará. Additional references: Barretto, 1946b: 527 (as synonym of baduelensis); Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a: 255 (as synonym of trinidadensis).
Phlebotomus baduelensis Floch & Abonnenc, 1944e: 1 (♂, ♀). Type locality: French Guiana. Fairchild & Hertig, 1948a: 255 (as synonym of trinidadensis); Floch & Abonnenc, 1952: 163.
Lutzomyia trinidadensis (Newstead): Young & Duncan, 1994: 683 (as species group Oswaldoi, taxonomic history, figures, keys, taxonomy). Additional references: Ibáñez-Bernal, 2003: 130 (diagnosis, references); Rebollar-Téllez et al., 2004: 285 (Campeche records), Rebollar-Téllez et al., 2006: 24 (Yucatan records), May-Uc et al., 2011: 279 (Quintana Roo records).
Micropygomyia (Sauromyia) trinidadensis (Newstead): Galati, 2003: 33 (listed).
Diagnosis. Male: Clypeus longer than 0.3 of the total length of head; apodeme and ejaculatory pump about 3.5 the length of the ejaculatory ducts, these with simple not modified apex; paramere suddenly sharpened at middle; lateral lobe shorter than gonocoxite; gonocoxite without a consolidated tuft of setae, but with about 7 isolated perennial fine setae distributed at middle; gonostylus with the basal spiniform setae robust, similar in length and at same level (2+1+2). Female: cibarium with a dome-shaped protuberance, two pairs of horizontal teeth which are more separated at middle and without vertical teeth or at least difficult to see; pharynx with spines; spermathecae banana-shaped, walls smooth (Young & Duncan 1994, Galati 2003).
Material examined. MEXICO: CHIAPAS: Loma Bonita, 06-vii-2010, CDC light trap, 1 ♀. Distribution. MEXICO (Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Yucatán) (Ibáñez-Bernal 2003; Ibáñez-Bernal 2005a), BELIZE, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA, TRINIDAD, FRENCH GUYANA, ECUADOR, PERU, BRAZIL, BOLIVIA (Martins et al. 1978; Young & Duncan 1994).
Remarks. This species was not abundant in the studied specimens. This species is not anthropophilous, with females feeding on ectothermic vertebrates (Tesh et al. 1971).
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 pages 156-157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/239180