Check List 14(4): 585-589, doi: 10.15560/14.4.585
Sciopemyia vattierae (Le Pont & Desjeux, 1992) (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae): new record from Acre state, Brazil
Márcia Moreira de Ávila‡, Andreia Fernandes Brilhante§, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati|, Acigelda da Silva Cardoso¶, Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil#‡ Instituto Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil§ Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil| Departamento de Epidemiologia, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil¶ Prefeitura Municipal de Rio Branco, Serviço de Vigilância Entomológica, Rio Branco, Brazil# Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Corresponding author: Márcia Moreira de Ávila ( marcia.avila@ifac.edu.br ) Academic editor: Kirstern Lica Follmann Haseyama © 2018 Márcia Moreira de Ávila, Andreia Fernandes Brilhante, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati, Acigelda da Silva Cardoso, Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Ávila MM, Brilhante AF, Galati EAB, Cardoso AS, Brazil RP (2018) Sciopemyia vattierae (Le Pont & Desjeux, 1992) (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae): new record from Acre state, Brazil. Check List 14(4): 585-589. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.4.585 |  |
Abstract
Sciopemyia vattierae (Le Pont & Desjeux, 1992) (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) is reported for the first time from Brazil. Five male and 4 female specimens were collected using HP light traps set up in a rural area of the municipality of Rio Branco, state of Acre, Brazil, from December 2014 to January 2016. This species was previously known only in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. Our new record extends the known distribution of S. vattierae to the Amazonian region of Acre and represents a new national record for Brazil.
Keywords
Sand flies; geographic distribution; Amazonia; South America