Catalogue of the type material of Phlebotominae (Diptera, Psychodidae) deposited in the Instituto Evandro Chagas, Brazil

Abstract

The available type material of Phlebotominae (Diptera, Psychodidae) deposited in the “Coleção de Flebotomíneos” of the Instituto Evandro Chagas (ColFleb IEC) is now presented in an annotated catalogue comprising a total of 121 type specimens belonging to 12 species as follow: Nyssomyia richardwardi (2 female paratypes), Nyssomyia shawi (9 male and 25 female paratypes), Nyssomyia umbratilis (female holotype and 1 female paratype), Nyssomyia yuilli yuilli (1 male and 1 female paratypes), Pintomyia gruta (1 male and 2 female paratypes), Psychodopygus lainsoni (2 male syntypes), Psychodopygus leonidasdeanei (male holotype, female “allotype” and 45 female paratypes), Psychodopygus llanosmartinsi (2 female paratypes), Psychodopygus wellcomei (1 male and 4 female “syntypes”), Trichophoromyia readyi (male holotype, female “allotype” and 1 male paratype), Trichophoromyia adelsonsouzai (male holotype, 13 male 5 female paratypes), and Trichophoromyia brachipyga (1 male paratype).

Phlebotominae (Diptera: Psychodomorpha: Psychodidae) deposited in the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo

“…The nomenclature of the types in this catalogue and the geographical distribution of the species are following Galati (2018). This catalogue was devised and organized according to previous research on other groups of insects, including sand flies (Santos et al, 2014;Adams & Shimabukuro, 2018;Falaschi et al, 2020;González et al, 2021). The other species of Phlebotominae (non-type) deposited in the collection are listed in the Supplementary Material.…”

“…Sand flies can be found in institutional collections (Santos et al, 2014;Adams & Shimabukuro, 2018, Andrade-Filho et al, 2022, including the named type-series, composed of the type specimen which is the example from which the taxon was described (ICZN, 1999). Brazil boasts seven scientific collections that house type specimens of the Phlebotominae: (I) "Coleção de Flebotomíneos do Instituto Evandro Chagas" (ColFleb IEC); (II) "Coleção de Flebotomíneos" (FIOCRUZ/COLFLEB); (III) "Coleção de Entomologia Médica da Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo" (FSP-USP/ SP); (IV) "Coleção de Invertebrados do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo" (MZUSP/SP); (V) "Coleção de Invertebrados do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia" (INPA/AM); (VI) "Coleção Entomológica do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz" (CEIOC/RJ) and (VII) "Coleção Entomológica dos Instituto Butantan" (IBut/SP).…”