Micropygomyia (Coquillettimyia) Galati, 1995

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, Zootaxa 3994 (2), pp. 151-186 : 157

Micropygomyia (Coquillettimyia) Galati, 1995

Lutzomyia species group vexatrix: Theodor, 1965: 183 (in part).

Lutzomyia species group vexator series vexator: Lewis et al., 1977: 325 .

Micropygomyia (Coquillettimyia) Galati, 1995: 136 . Type species: Flebotomus vexator Coquillett, 1907 . Additional references: Galati, 2003: 33, 68 (list, key).

Diagnosis. Pharynx spines absent; Male: Antennal flagellomere 1 shorter than head; gonocoxite with a basal tuft of 4 to 7 setae; gonostylus with two apical and the internal spiniform setae originated before middle. Female: Antennal flagellomere 1 no longer than 0.75 the head length; flagellomere 2 internal ascoid reaching or surpassing the level of papilliform sensilla; cibarium with 2 or more pairs of horizontal teeth; spermatheca small, globular or longer, striated or annulated ( Young & Duncan 1994, Galati 2003).

Remarks. Galati (2003) recognized two series of species in this subgenus, the series vexator and chiapanensis , both with species distributed in Central America, Mexico and the United States. In this work one species of series chiapanensis is reported.