title: The phlebotomine sandflies of Venezuelan Amazonia.
abstract: Phlebotomine sandflies were surveyed in two ecologically contrasted areas, the northern moist and southern wet tropical forests, of the Territorio Federal Amazonas, Venezuela. Three new taxa and twenty-one new records were added to the previously known species list for Venezuelan sandflies, which now totals eighty species. Both sexes of Lutzomyia (Psychodopygus) killicki sp.n., L. (Trichophoryomyia) bettinii sp.n., L. (Nyssomyia) olmeca reducta subsp.n. and and the females of L. bernalei Osorno et al., Brumptomyia pintoi Costa Lima and L. begonae (Ortiz & Torres) are described and illustrated.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Carabobo, Núcleo Aragua, Venezuela.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Feliciangeli
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ramirez Perez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ramirez
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D011576:Psychodidae / Q000145:classification*; D014329:Tropical Climate; D014687:Venezuela