Phlebotomus simonahalepae Cazan, Erisoz Kasap & Mihalca, 2021

Cazan, Cristina Daniela, Sándor, Attila D., Kasap, Ozge Erisoz, Alten, Bulent & Mihalca, Andrei Daniel, 2021, Sand fly fauna of South-Eastern Romania, with the description of PhlebotomUS (TranSphlebotomUS) Simonahalepae n. sp. (Diptera: Psychodidae), Parasites & Vectors (448) 14 (1), pp. 1-10 : 4

Phlebotomus simonahalepae Cazan, Erisoz Kasap & Mihalca , n. sp.

Type locality Canaraua Fetii Special Protection Area (44.07302 N, 27.64289 E), Dobrogea region, South-Eastern Romania .

Type-material Te holotype female (accession number 000528778100001) has been deposited in the ‘ Grigore Antipa’ Natural History Museum , Bucharest, Romania .

Representative DNA sequences GenBank accession numbers MZ647965 (CO1), MZ647523 (Cytb), MZ647524 (ND4).

ZooBank registration To comply with the regulations set out in Article 8.5 of the amended 2012 version of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) [18], details of the new species have been submitted to ZooBank. Te Life Science Identifier (LSID) of the article is urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:524DD296-DD7C-401E-9576-8CAA8FCEAED1 . Te LSID for the new name Phlebotomus simonahalepae is urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:DF49E8EC-7A8A-4A66-BBA5-058F82380E64 .

Etymology Te species is dedicated to the famous tennis player Simona Halep, born in the same county as the type locality.

Description

Female [Te counts and measurements provided below are those of the holotype (labelled RO-CAN62; museum record number: 000528778100001). Te specimen was remounted for the second time due to a precipitation of the Swan solution between 2018 and 2020. In order to perform additional measurements, the authors have performed the second mounting].

Head ( Fig. 5a ). Occiput with two narrow lines of well individualised setae. On the line above the eyes, one greater insertion of seta on each side. Clypeus 192.95 μm long, 148.19 μm wide with 28 setae randomly distributed. Eyes 316.61 μm long, 248.15 μm wide with about 100 facets. Interantennal suture incomplete. Interocular sutures not reaching the interantennal one. Flagellomeres ( Fig. 5b ): f1 (495.64 μm) longer than f2 (197.96 μm) + f3 (194.52 μm); f12, f13, f14 were missing at the time of measurement, but were previously observed. Ascoidal formula: 2/f1–f14 with long ascoids, reaching the next article. Number of sensillae and simple setae per flagellomere are indicated in Table 2 . Palpi ( Fig. 5a ): p1: 60.24 μm long; p2: 233.48 μm; p3: 223.53 μm; p4: 216.58 μm; p5: 490.46 μm. Palpal formula: 1, 4, 2, 3, 5. Only one Newstead’s sensillae visible in the middle of the third palpal segment, part of a larger group, but detached at the time of examination. No Newstead’s sensilla on other palpal segment. Presence of one spiniform seta on p3, six on p4, and 10 on p5. Labrum-epipharynx ( Fig. 5c ) 458.50 μm long. f1/ E = 1.08. Maxillary lacinia ( Fig. 5c ) exhibiting 16 fine external and more than 40 fine internal teeth. Hypopharynx ( Fig. 5c ) with about 34 triangular teeth. Cibarium with fine lateral denticles observed. Pharyngeal armature ( Fig. 5d ) well developed, occupying the last third of the pharynx, made with small dots-like teeth and long triangular teeth. Genitalia ( Fig. 5e, f ). Spermathecae cylindrical in shape, length = 96.82 μm, width = 30.58 μm, striated and capsulated. Terminal knob (7.85 μm) round-shaped with nine finger-like prolongations (approx. 4–7 μm) connected by a thin neck (3.6 μm). Absence of common duct. Ducts not visible in the anterior part. Te basal part wide and smooth. Torax, abdomen, wings, and legs. Not observed.

Figures

Fig. 5 Female of Phlebotomus simonahalepae n. sp.Holotype. Included in the ML tree according to Fig. 4. a Head. b Flagellomeres 1, 2, 3. c Labrum—epipharynx,maxillary lacinia, mandible, hypopharynx (from left to right). d Pharynx. e Spermathecae. f Genital furca and spermathecae