Lutzomyia (Tricholateralis) 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 : 161

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Lutzomyia (Tricholateralis) Galati, 1995 View in CoL

Lutzomyia View in CoL species group cruciata: Theodor, 1965: 181 View in CoL ; Martins et al., 1978: 120.

Lutzomyia (Helcocyrtomyia) View in CoL species group cruciata: Artemiev, 1991: 73 View in CoL .

Lutzomyia (Lutzomyia) View in CoL : Young & Duncan, 1994: 45 (in part).

Tricholateralis Galati, 1995: 136 (as subgenus of Lutzomyia View in CoL ). Type species: Lutzomyia cruciata ( Coquillett, 1907) View in CoL . Additional references: Galati, 2003: 36 (listed, keys).

Diagnosis. Flagellomere 3 without sensorial papilla; abdominal pleura with small setae. Male: gonostylus with one apical spiniform setae and without preapical setae. Female: spermatheca annulated ( Galati 2003).

Remarks. This subgenus includes species which females usually feed on human blood as well as on other vertebrates, and some species have been incriminated or associated as possible vectors of Leishmania to humans ( Young & Duncan 1994). According to Galati (2003) 12 species are included in this subgenus, with three of them distributed in Mexico.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Psychodidae
Genus	Lutzomyia