Costa Pietra L, Silva Fernando J, Andrade Filho José D, Shaw Jeffrey J, Brandão Filho Sinval P
Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Departamento de Imunologia, F: (55-81) 21012562, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária, 50670-420, Recife, PE, Brazil.
J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 2012 Jun;28(2):128-30. doi: 10.2987/11-6218R.1.
Approximately 800 species of phlebotomine sand flies, many of which are vectors of Leishmania, have been described. Besides morphological similarities within groups, the occurrence of anomalies within a species may lead to an erroneous description of new species. This paper describes one phlebotomine sand fly, Evandromyia evandroi, with a symmetrical bilateral anomaly in the number of spines on the gonostyle. In this specimen, the anomalous spine is located in the external region of gonostyle, inserted between the upper external and the lower external spines. It is important to document morphological anomalies, so as to avoid erroneous sand fly identifications.
已描述了约800种白蛉，其中许多是利什曼原虫的传播媒介。除了群体内部的形态相似性外，一个物种内异常情况的出现可能会导致对新物种的错误描述。本文描述了一种白蛉，即埃氏伊蚊，其生殖突上的刺数量存在对称的双侧异常。在这个标本中，异常的刺位于生殖突的外部区域，插在外部上部和外部下部的刺之间。记录形态异常很重要，以避免对白蛉的错误鉴定。
