Online catalogue of the Coleção de Flebotomíneos (FIOCRUZ/COLFLEB), a biological collection of American sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) held at Fiocruz Minas, Brazil

Abstract

The Coleção de Flebotomíneos (“Phlebotomine Collection”; FIOCRUZ/COLFLEB) held at Fiocruz Minas is a curated biological collection comprising approximately 80 000 individual specimens of 370 species of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae). These were mostly collected from the Americas in the last 80 years by entomologists interested in understanding and controlling the vector-borne disease leishmaniases. Since 2010, the metadata of each biological specimen held in FIOCRUZ/COLFLEB, including the back catalogue of those deposited in previous decades, has been digitized. Here, we present the resulting electronic catalog containing records for 72,624 of the specimens, including all of the available provenance information associated with each specimen. The catalog is published online through the speciesLink network and the Sistema de Informação sobre a Biodiversidade Brasileira (SiBBr).

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

“…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).…”