Nyssomyia ylephiletor Fairchild & Hertig 1952
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
Asilidae
Nyssomyia
Nyssomyia ylephiletor

description: Nyssomyia ylephiletor (Fairchild & Hertig, 1952)
Phlebotomus ylephiletor Fairchild & Hertig, 1952: 520 (♂, ♀). Type locality: Panama, Bocas del Toro, Almirante. Additional references: Fairchild & Hertig, 1959: 122 (distribution).
Phlebotomus olmecus Vargas & Díaz-Nájera, 1959: 147 (in part, female description correspond to Ny. ylephiletor).
Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) ylephiletrix (Fairchild & Hertig): Barretto, 1962: 98 (list).
Lutzomyia ylephiletrix (Fairchild & Hertig) species group Intermedia: Theodor, 1965: 184 (list).
Psychodopygus (Trichophoromyia) ylephiletor (Fairchild & Hertig): Forattini, 1971a: 106 (listed); Forattini, 1973: 123 (taxonomy, distribution).
Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) ylephiletor (Fairchild & Hertig): Martins et al., 1978: 103 (references, distribution); Young, 1979: 162 (references, distribution); Ready & Fraiha, 1981: 709 (key); Zeledón et al., 1982: 276 (Honduras record); Christensen et al., 1983: 466 (abundance, Panama); Murillo & Zeledón, 1985: 55 (Costa Rica records); Young & Duncan, 1994: 462 (references, taxonomy, distribution); Rebollar-Téllez et al., 2004: 285 (Campeche, record), Rebollar-Téllez et al., 2005: 197 (Campeche abundance data).
Nyssomyia ylephiletor (Fairchild & Hertig): Galati, 2003: 46, 124, 125 (list, keys).
Diagnosis. Mesonotum dark, pronotum and paratergite pale; Male: gonostylus with 2 terminal spines close together, separated by distance similar to greatest width of terminal spine, proximal 2 spines inserted at at same level and middle one-third of article; genital filaments shorter than 2X apodeme + pump length; Female: spermatheca with 5 to 7 annuli, basal annuli smaller than distal annuli, and capitulum as wide as its terminal annulus; individual spermathecal ducts shorter than 2X length of spermatheca, without sclerotized rugosities (Young & Duncan 1994, Galati 2003).
Material examined. Collected with CDC light traps. MEXICO: CHIAPAS: Guadalupe Miramar: 12-viii-2009, 1 ♂; 20-iv-2010, 1 ♀; 01-xii-2010, 1 ♂. Loma Bonita: 19-ii-2010, 1 ♀; 20-ii-2010, 1 ♀; 19-iii-2011, 1 ♀; 20-iii- 2010, 1 ♀; 24-x-2010, 1 ♂. San Antonio Buena Vista: 28-iii-2010, 1 ♀.
Distribution. MEXICO (Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco) (Rebollar-Téllez et al. 2004, Ibáñez-Bernal, 2005), BELIZE, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, COLOMBIA (Young & Duncan 1994, Galati 2003).
Remarks. This species is antropophilous and has been found infected with Leishmania mexicana in Guatemala (Porter et al. 1987). It is also suspected as a vector of Leishmania panamensis in Panama (Christensen & Herrer 1973). One female of this species (out of eight females examined), was found positive (12.5%) for Le. mexicana infection in the Mexican state of Campeche. The actual role of this species as a vector is hithertho unknown (Pech-May et al. 2010).
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 181, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/239180