Description of Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleotrichia, a miocene period new species from the Dominican Republic (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae).
A new fossil species of phlebotomine sandflies is described from Dominican amber based in one specimen. Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleotrichia sp. nov. is distinguished from the other extant and extinct species by aspects of paramere and the basal tuft of bristles in the gonocoxite.
Andrade Filho
José Dilermando
JD
Laboratório de Leishmanioses, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, Fiocruz, 30190-002 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. jandrade@cpqrr.fiocruz.br
Brazil
Reginaldo Peçanha
RP
Falcão
Alda Lima
AL
Galati
Eunice A Bianchi
EA
D018647:Amber; D000818:Animals; D004293:Dominican Republic; D005580:Fossils; D008297:Male; D011576:Psychodidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification
D018647:Amber