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During an inventory in Pha Tong cave, Thailand, two collected species could not be related to known sand fly species. The first new species, Phlebotomus shadenae n. sp. is a sand fly of the subgenus Anaphlebotomus. It is morphologically close to Ph. stantoni, a species widely distributed throughout Southeast Asia. However, it differs by the length of the genital filaments or ducts of the spermathecae as well as the high divergence of cytochrome b sequences. The second new species, Sergentomyia maiae n. sp., differs from a species in the same group, Se. barraudi, by an original cibarial double row of vertical teeth as well as by molecular data. Renaux Torres and Pellot et al, 2023
Image Credit: Jérôme Depaquit
Citation: (2023) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 17(9) October 2023. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 17(9): ev17.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v17.i09
Published: October 2, 2023
Copyright: © 2023 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
During an inventory in Pha Tong cave, Thailand, two collected species could not be related to known sand fly species. The first new species, Phlebotomus shadenae n. sp. is a sand fly of the subgenus Anaphlebotomus. It is morphologically close to Ph. stantoni, a species widely distributed throughout Southeast Asia. However, it differs by the length of the genital filaments or ducts of the spermathecae as well as the high divergence of cytochrome b sequences. The second new species, Sergentomyia maiae n. sp., differs from a species in the same group, Se. barraudi, by an original cibarial double row of vertical teeth as well as by molecular data. Renaux Torres and Pellot et al, 2023
Image Credit: Jérôme Depaquit