Estudio sobre Flebotomineos en Araracuara Caquetá, Colombia S.A Incluyendo la descripción de Lutzomyia Araracuarensis (Diptera, Psychodidae)

Abstract

During July and August 1977, in an Amazonian rain forest area of about 1 km2 near the settlement of Araracuara, Caqueta, Colombia, Sur America, a survey of the phlebotomine sandfly fauna was carried out, using several methods of collection (Shannon traps, light traps, human bait catches and manual catches of resting sandflies with aspirators). Thirty five species of Lutzomyia were encountered (2.145 and 2.903), of which 6 species were new records for Colombia and one a new species which is described from 23 male specimens as Lutzomyia araracuarensis sp. nov. and is allocated to the Gasparviannai group. The female of Lutzomyia wagleyi (longispina group) is described for the first time. Males and females of two apparently unknown species are described and provisionally designated as Lutzomyia sp. No. 1, Araracuara, and Lu. sp.No. 2, Araracuara: Lu. sp. No. 1 is allocated to the subgenus Trichophoramyia and Lu. sp. No. 2 to the oswaldoi group. Twenty four female sandflies (5 species) were infested with mites which were identified variously to the family or generic level.