Psychodopygus panamensis Shannon 1926
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
Psychodopygus
Psychodopygus panamensis

description: Psychodopygus panamensis (Shannon, 1926), series panamensis
Phlebotomus panamensis Shannon, 1926: 192 (♂). Type locality: Panama, Canal Zone.
Phlebotomus (Shannonomyia) panamensis Shannon: Dyar, 1929: 117.
Phlebotomus (Shannonomyina) panamensis Shannon: Fairchild & Hertig, 1951: 405.
Psychodopygus (Psychodopygus) panamensis (Shannon): Forattini, 1971: 105; Forattini, 1973: 393.
Lutzomyia (Psychodopygus) panamensis (Shannon): Martins et al., 1978: 43 (catalogue, distribution); Young & Duncan, 1994: 579 (complete references, taxonomy, distribution); Rebollar-Téllez et al., 2004: 285 (Campeche records); Rebollar-Téllez et al., 2005: 197 (Campeche abundance data), May-Uc et al., 2011: 279 (Quintana Roo abundance data).
Psychodopygus panamensis (Shannon): Galati, 2003: 121, 123 (as series panamensis, list, keys); Ibáñez-Bernal et al., 2011: 36 (Veracruz records).
Diagnosis. Pronotum, katepimeron, and coxae pale, scutum dark; anepimeral setae absent. Male: paramere ventral lobe with two tufts of blade-like setae, apical lobe with two large setae, one preapical and one apical; gonostylus with 3 strong and one weak spiniform setae originated in the apical tirth; Female: cibarium with 4 horizontal teeth and a transverse row of vertical teeth plus longitudinal median rows of markedly enlarged vertical teeth; spermathecae with asymmetrical terminal annulation, clearly longer than individual spermathecal duct; common spermathecal duct smooth below rugose portion (Young & Duncan 1994, Galati 2003).
Material examined. Collected with CDC light traps. MEXICO: CHIAPAS: Guadalupe Miramar, 19-vi-2009, 1 ♀; 12-viii-2009, 3 ♂; 04-ix-2009, 1 ♂; 05-ix-2009, 2 ♂; 21-x-2009, 1 ♀; 09-xii-2009, 1 ♀; 13-i-2010, 1 ♀; 14-i- 2010, 1 ♀; 16-ii-2010, 2 ♂; 17-ii-2010, 3 ♂, 4 ♀; 18-ii-2010, 2 ♀; 21-ii-2010, 2 ♀; 17-iii-2010, 1 ♀; 18-iii-2010, 7 ♀; 19-iii-2010, 1 ♂; 16-vi-2010, 1 ♀; 17-vi-2010, 1 ♂; 20-vi-2010, 1 ♀; 08-vii-2010, 1 ♀; 10-vii-2010, 2 ♀; 19-x- 2010, 3 ♂; 20-x-2010, 9 ♂; 21-x-2010, 10 ♂; 17-xi-2010, 144 ♂; 18-xi-2010, 109 ♂; 19-i-2011, 1 ♂, 1 ♀; 20-i- 2011, 3 ♂, 2 ♀; 08-ii-2011, 1 ♂, 7 ♀; 09-ii-2011, 2 ♀; 10-ii-2011, 4 ♀. Loma Bonita: 14-viii-2009, 2 ♀; 02-ix- 2009, 1 ♂; 20-x-2009, 1 ♂; 19-ii-2010, 3 ♂, 4 ♀; 20-ii-2010, 2 ♀; 21-ii-2010, 1 ♂, 4 ♀; 20-iii-2010, 1 ♀; 16-vi- 2010, 1 ♀; 22-x-2010, 2 ♂; 24-x-2010, 4 ♂, 1 ♀; 18-xi-2010, 2 ♂; 19-xi-2010, 3 ♂, 1 ♀; 21-xi-2010, 1 ♂; 22-i- 2011, 1 ♀; 12-ii-2011, 1 ♂. San Antonio Buena Vista: 13-vii-2010, 1 ♂.
Collected with Magoon trap. MEXICO: CHIAPAS: Guadalupe Miramar: 16-vi-2009, 3 ♀; 18-vi-2009, 1 ♀; 11-viii-2009, 1 ♀; 13-viii-2009, 1 ♀; 14-viii-2009, 1 ♀; 13-viii-2010, 2 ♀; 19-viii-2010, 1 ♀; 19-xi-2010, 2 ♀; 20- xi-2010, 1 ♀. Loma Bonita: 20-ii-2010, 1 ♀; 23-x-2010, 1 ♀.
Distribution. MEXICO (Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz) (Ibáñez-Bernal 2003; Ibáñez-Bernal 2005), BELIZE, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA, FRENCH GUIANA, ECUADOR, BRAZIL (Young & Duncan 1994), PERU (Cáceres & Galati 2001, Galati 2003).
Remarks. This is an anthropophilous species and has been found infected with Leishmania panamensis (Christensen et al. 1983) and Leishmania braziliensis (Rowton et al. 1991). Natural infection with Le. mexicana has been reported by Pech-May et al. (2010) in the Mexican state of Campeche. In our collections, Psychodopygus panamensis was the most abundant species.
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 180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/239180