Sergentomyia

Curler, Gregory R., 2011, Records of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) with a description of a new species of Sergentomyia França & Parrot from Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, Zootaxa 2806, pp. 60-68 : 61-62

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.277084
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6190681
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scientific name	Sergentomyia
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Sergentomyia View in CoL View at ENA França & Parrot, 1920

Newsteadia França, 1919: 148 View in CoL (as subgenus of Phlebotomus View in CoL ). Type species: Hebotomus [sic] minutus Rondani, 1843 by designation of França (1920: 234) [junior homonym of Newsteadia Green, 1902 View in CoL ].

Sergentomyia View in CoL França & Parrot, 1920: 699 [replacement name for Newsteadia View in CoL França].

Prophlebotomus França & Parrot, 1921: 281. Type species: Hebotomus [sic] minutus Rondani, 1843 by designation of Parrot (1934: 391) [junior synonym of Sergentomyia View in CoL França & Parrot].

See Lewis (1978) for complete synonymy.

Sergentomyia View in CoL includes more than half of the described phlebotomine fauna in the eastern hemisphere, approximately 280 species. As noted by Seccombe et al. (1993), Sergentomyia View in CoL species usually feed on ectothermic vertebrates, but some species (e.g. S. gomboki ) are known to take bloodmeals form mammals, including humans.