title: Description of evandromyia spelunca, a new phlebotomine species of the cortelezzii complex, from a cave in Minas Gerais State, Brazil (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The cave fauna of the Brazil is poorly documented, and among the insects those live or frequent caves and their adjacent environments phlebotomine sand flies call for special attention because several species are vectors of pathogens among vertebrates hosts. A new species of sand fly from Minas Gerais is described based in females and males collected in a cave of the municipality of Lassance.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The morphological characters of the new species permit to include in the Evandromyia genus, cortelezzii complex. This complex consists of three species: Evandromyia corumbaensis (Galati, Nunes, Oshiro & Rego, 1989), Evandromyia cortelezzii (Brethes, 1923) and Evandromyia sallesi (Galvao & Coutinho, 1940).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The new species can be separate from the others of the cortelezzii complex through morphological characters of the male terminalia and female spermathecae.
authors.affiliation: Coleção de Flebotomíneos, Centro de Referência Nacional e Internacional para Flebotomíneos, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Av. Augusto de Lima 1715, 30190-002 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Gustavo M L
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: Reginaldo P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Brazil
authors.forename: Cristiani C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Sanguinette
authors.forename: José D Andrade
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Filho
mesh_terms: D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D059552:Caves / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000469:parasitology; D007891:Leishmania / Q000502:physiology; D007896:Leishmaniasis / Q000469:parasitology; D008297:Male; D011576:Psychodidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000469:parasitology