| Evandromyia chacuensis | |
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| Species: | E. chacuensis |
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| Evandromyia chacuensis Szelag, Rosa, Galati, Andrade Filho & Salomón, 2018 | |
Evandromyia chacuensis is a species of sand fly first circumscribed in 2018 from specimens collected in Argentina. [1] It is the 12th species currently described in the subgenus Barrettomyia. [2]
The males and females are both about 2-3mm in length, medium in size when compared to other phlebotomines, and light brown in general color. [1]
The type specimens were collected in three municipalities of Argentina's Chaco province: Misión Nueva Pompeya in the Dry Chaco ecoregion in the north of the province, and Colonia Benítez and Resistencia in the Humid Chaco ecoregion in the south of the province. [1]
Sand flies of the genus Evandromyia are among the most numerous and widely distributed sand flies in Argentina, so this new species may be found to play a role in the numerous leishmaniasis outbreaks that have occurred over the past 20 years in the Chaco bioregion, where an increasing number of cases are associated with periurban transmission. [1] Some species of phlebotomine sand flies are able to transmit the causative agents of Bartonelloses and phleboviral diseases to susceptible mammalian hosts.[ citation needed ]
The new species name chacuensis was derived from the Quechua word "chacú", connoting a name of a hunting territory or a hunting technique, from which the Hispanic place name Chaco was derived, [1] and the Latin adjectival suffix "-ensis," meaning “originating in.”