Journal of Medical Entomology (2016) 53, 1488-1491

Paloma Helena Fernandes Shimabukuro, Jéssica Adalia Costa Moreira and Tiago Silva da Costa (2016)
Sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the Brazilian Atlantic forest domain collected with malaise traps
Journal of Medical Entomology 53 (6), 1488-1491
Abstract: Here, we present the results of a 2-yr sampling using malaise traps along the Atlantic Forest domain from the northeast to the south of Brazil. In total, 217 sand flies were collected, of which the most abundant species was Bichromomyia flaviscutellata (Mangabeira, 1942) (60.4%), followed by Psychodopygus ayrozai (Barretto and Coutinho, 1940) (11%) and Micropygomyia schreiberi (Martins, Falcão and Silva, 1975) (4.1%), and the remaining less abundant species comprised 10.1% of the total of sand flies collected. We report the occurrence for the first time of: 1) B. flaviscutellata, Pintomyia fischeri (Pinto, 1926), Ps. ayrozai, and Psychodopygus carreirai (Barretto, 1946) in the state of Alagoas; 2) Psychodopygus claustrei (Abonnenc, Lèger and Fauran,1979), Psychodopygus amazonensis (Root, 1934), and Sciopemyia sordellii (Shannon and del ponte, 1927) in the state of Bahia; 3) Nyssomyia anduzei (Rozeboom, 1942) in the state of Pernambuco; and 4) B. flaviscutellata, M. schreiberi, Ps. ayrozai, and Psychodopygus davisi (Root, 1934) in the state of Sergipe. Our results present novel records of sand flies collected with malaise traps in the Atlantic Forest domain demonstrating that different collecting methods such as malaise traps can provide new interesting data about these insects that are natural vectors of many pathogens.
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
surveys/sampling/distribution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Lutzomyia flaviscutellata		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia carrerai		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia amazonensis		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia fischeri		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia ayrozai		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia anduzei		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia davisi		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia claustrei		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia sordellii		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia schreiberi		Brazil (NE)