Alves Veracilda Ribeiro, Freitas Rui Alves de, Barrett Toby
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, 69011-970, Brasil.
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2008 May;103(3):251-3. doi: 10.1590/s0074-02762008005000012. Epub 2008 Apr 30.
A new species of parthenogenetic, autogenic and apparently extremely endemic phlebotomine is described from a sandstone cave located in primary terra firme forest to the North of the city of Manaus. Specimens were collected in the aphotic zone of the Refúgio do Maruaga cave by light trap and reared from bat guano. The adult morphology suggests a closer relationship to some Old World Phlebotominae than to species of Lutzomyia França encountered in the surrounding rainforest, but it shares characteristics with the recently proposed Neotropical genera Edentomyia Galati, Deanemyia Galati and Oligodontomyia Galati.
从位于玛瑙斯市北部原始高地森林中的一个砂岩洞穴中，描述了一种孤雌生殖、自生且显然极度地方性的白蛉新物种。标本是通过灯光诱捕在马鲁阿加避难所洞穴的无光区域采集的，并从蝙蝠粪便中饲养出来。成虫形态表明，它与一些旧世界白蛉亚科的关系比与周围雨林中发现的卢氏白蛉属物种的关系更密切，但它与最近提出的新热带属埃登白蛉属、迪恩白蛉属和少齿白蛉属具有共同特征。
