[An updated checklist of Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) from the Colombian Andean coffee-growing region]

Biomedica. 2014 Jul-Sep;34(3):483-98. doi: 10.1590/S0120-41572014000300017.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

An updated list of phlebotomine sand flies species in coffee growing areas in the Colombian Andean region is presented. Fifty three species were reported from 12 departments. In addition, species distribution in the region was derived from specimens obtained during intensive field work in five departments, from previously published studies and from the taxonomic revision of specimens in the entomological collection of the Programa de Estudio y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales (PECET). The list includes the genera Brumptomyia (2 species), Lutzomyia (50 species) and Warileya (1 species). The updated list contains eleven new records in the region under study, including Lutzomyia panamensis , a species of medical importance not recorded previously in this zone. Eighteen of the species are considered to be anthropophilic, and many of them have been implicated in the transmission of leishmaniasis.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Agricultural Workers' Diseases
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
  • Checklist
  • Coffee
  • Colombia
  • Ecosystem
  • Humans
  • Insect Vectors / classification
  • Leishmania
  • Leishmaniasis / transmission
  • Occupational Exposure
  • Psychodidae / classification*
  • Species Specificity

Substances

  • Coffee