title: Multivariate morphometric discrimination among three species of Lutzomyia subgenus Micropygomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae).
abstract: Canonical discriminant analysis accurately separated males of Lutzomyia yencanensis (n = 36) (Ortiz), Lutzomyia cayennensis cayennensis (n = 24) (Floch and Abonnenc) and Lutzomyia micropyga (n = 28) (Mangabeira). Only seven (length of head, interocular distance, wing vein delta, genital filaments, coxite, paramere, and lateral lobe) of 20 possible morphometric measurements were required for differentiation, with a highly significant canonical correlation. The discriminant equations provided a simple, fast, and widely available statistical tool to identify accurately unknown sand fly specimens as L. yencanensis, L. c. cayennensis, or L. micropyga.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Entomología Médica, Unimetropa, Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Experimental "Francisco de Miranda", Coro, Estado Falcón, Venezuela.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cazorla
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Acosta
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005843:Geography; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011576:Psychodidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014687:Venezuela