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A report on occurrence of Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) and two new country records from Andaman & Nicobar Islands, a Union territory of India

  • 1. ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Pondicherry 605 006, India & pcsaja@gmail.com, pjambulingam56@gmail.com; http://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-0962-6953
  • 2. ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Pondicherry 605 006, India & r.s_vasan@yahoo.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6769-2609
  • 3. ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Pondicherry 605 006, India & s.gopal82vcrc@gmail.com; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2935-3497

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Jambulingam, P., Srinivasan, R., Gopalakrishnan, S. (2022): A report on occurrence of Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) and two new country records from Andaman & Nicobar Islands, a Union territory of India. Zootaxa 5093 (2): 241-246, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.2.7

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