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Phlebotomus (Phlebotomus) bergeroti Parrot 1934

  • 1. Faculté de Médecine, Université Montpellier 1, 1 rue de l'Éencole de Médecine, 34000 Montpellier, France
  • 2. Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit of Vector-borne Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299,
  • 3. Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, EA 7510, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Faculté de Pharmacie,
  • 4. PATH OWH (formerly One World Health), A- 9, Qutub Institutional area, USO Road, New Delhi 110067, India
  • 5. Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, EA 7510, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Faculté de Pharmacie, & ANSES, USC Transmission Vectorielle et Épidémiosurveillance de Maladies Parasitaires (VECPAR), 51100 Reims, France & Laboratoire de Parasitologie, Pôle de Biologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims, 51100 Reims, France

Description

Phlebotomus (Phlebotomus) bergeroti Parrot, 1934

The male is characterised by the presence of two spines at the end of the surstyle. The gonocoxite has a subapical tuft not exceeding ten setae. The upper part of the paramere is slightly longer than the other ones and covered with bristles in its distal half only.

The female is identified by its annealed spermathecae with sessile head, by a pharynx armed with teeth without spines or denticles on the posterior part and by the presence of anterior bilateral teeth. Ascoids reach or exceed the next articulation.

The distribution of Ph. bergeroti is wide: from Morocco to Iran. Its southern limit is the Sudan. In Oman, it is a scarce species in the Sharqiyah and the semi-arid zone of Dhofar, but it becomes abundant in the perarid part of the latter region. The strong anthropophily of Ph. bergeroti, and its abundance in certain perarid areas [2, 44] are arguments in favor of a significant vector role for L. major in the extreme deserts of Africa and the Arabian peninsula.

Notes

Published as part of Rioux, Jean-Antoine, Gramiccia, Marina, Léger, Nicole, Desjeux, Philippe & Depaquit, Jérôme, 2020, Leishmaniasis and phlebotomine sand flies in Oman Sultanate, pp. 1-13 in Parasite (Paris, France) (Paris, France) 27 (68) on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2020064, http://zenodo.org/record/12524365

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References

  • 2. Abonnenc E, Rioux JA. 1961. Contribution a l' etude des phlebotomes (Diptera, Psychodidae) du Nord-Tchad, in Mission epidemiologique au Nord-Tchad, Rioux JA, Editor. Arts et Metiers Graphiques: Paris. p. 30 - 53.
  • 44. Martin R. 1938. Observations sur les Phlebotomes d' Ethiopie. Archives de l' Institt Pasteur d' Algerie, 16, 219 - 225.