Laboratoire d'épidémiologie moléculaire et pathologies appliquées aux maladies infectieuses (LR16IPT04), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis el Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
Libyan National Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Tripoli, Libya.
J Med Entomol. 2019 Feb 25;56(2):560-564. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjy192.
In Tunisia, 17 phlebotomine sand fly species are reported, belonging to genera Phlebotomus and Sergentomyia. However, subsequent to faunal studies and outbreaks of leishmaniasis in different regions of the country, unrecognized sand fly species could exist. Indeed, we report in this study the presence of Sergentomyia (Parrotomyia) lewisiParrot 1948. A brief collection of phlebotomine sand flies was undertaken in August 2016 in Khbina locality, in Sidi Bouzid governorate situated in Central Tunisia, which constitutes an old focus of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis. Sand flies were collected, using CDC light traps that were placed overnight, in different biotopes (inside habitations, outdoors, and within animal shelters). Specimens were collected and morphologically identified. Measurements were taken with an ocular micrometer. Two female specimens of the species Se. (Parrotomyia) lewisi were collected. One specimen is here described and measured. A comparison of its taxonomic characters to the holotype from Sudan and a specimen from Algeria is also presented. This species was until now only reported from Sudan, Ethiopia, Algeria, and Morocco. It is here described for the first time in Tunisia, which raises the Tunisian sand fly fauna to seven subgenera and 18 species.
在突尼斯，报告了 17 种嗜人血虱蝇沙蝇物种，属于鳞蝇属和塞氏蝇属。然而，在对不同地区的动物群进行研究和利什曼病暴发后，可能存在未被识别的沙蝇物种。事实上，我们在本研究中报告了存在塞氏蝇（鹦鹉蝇）lewisiParrot 1948。2016 年 8 月，在突尼斯中部锡迪布济德省的 Khbina 地区进行了短暂的嗜人血虱蝇采集，该地区是动物源性皮肤利什曼病的旧疫区。使用 CDC 诱捕器在不同生境（室内、室外和动物庇护所内）放置过夜采集沙蝇。收集标本并进行形态学鉴定。使用目镜测微计进行测量。共采集到两种雌性 Se.（鹦鹉蝇）lewisi 标本。本文描述并测量了其中一个标本。还对其与来自苏丹的模式标本和来自阿尔及利亚的标本的分类特征进行了比较。这种物种以前只在苏丹、埃塞俄比亚、阿尔及利亚和摩洛哥报告过。这是在突尼斯首次描述，使突尼斯沙蝇动物群增加到七个亚属和 18 个物种。
