title: Description of Trichophoromyia uniniensis, a new phlebotomine species (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) of Amazonas State, Brazil.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A new species of phlebotomine sand flies belonging to Trichophoromyia Barretto, 1962 genus is described, based on males collected in Jaú National Park, Amazonas state, Brazil.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Sand flies were mounted in Canada balsam. They were measured with a binocular Olympus CH-2 microscope with the aid of a micrometer objective and the drawings were done with the help of a camera lucida.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This new species named Trichophoromyia uniniensis sp. nov. is closely related to Trichophoromyia omagua (Martins, Llanos & Silva, 1976). The former can be distinguished from the latter by the shape of its paramere that has the lower apical region turned up in the new species.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With the new species here described a total of 39 species belonging to the Trichophoromyia genus are now known, most of them present in the Amazon rainforest.
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ladeia-Andrade
authors.forename: Nelson Ferreira
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Fé
authors.forename: Cristiani de Castilho
authors.initials: Cde C
authors.lastname: Sanguinette
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Estudos em Leishmanioses, 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, Brasil. jandrade@cpqrr.fiocruz.br.
authors.forename: José Dilermando
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Andrade Filho
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D008297:Male; D011576:Psychodidae / Q000145:classification*; D013045:Species Specificity