[First record of Phlebotomus from Madagascar (Diptera: Psychodidae). Description of Phlebotomus (Anaphlebotomus) fertei n. sp. and Phlebotomus (Anaphlebotomus) huberti n. sp]

Abstract

First record of Phlebotomine sandflies belonging to the genus Phlebotomus from Madagascar. Description of two new species: Phlebotomus (Anaphlebotomus) fertei n. sp. from three males and Phlebotomus (Anaphlebotomus) huberti n. sp. from two females. Their belonging to the subgenus Anaphlebotomus is supported by several characters. Male have four spines on the style, a coxite without basal tubercle, a paramere with two branches, one to three antero-inferior setae on the mesanepisternum. Female, closely related to the Asiatic species of the same subgenus, has a characteristic pharyngeal armature, about ten cibarial teeth, and annealing spermathecae with long ducts including a short basal common part. These two taxa differ by variation in the second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) of the ribosomal DNA (rDNA). At the present time, the subgenus Anaphlebotomus includes six species (excluding P. fortunatarum from it), completing the known species from Africa (P. rodhaini and P. rousettus) and from Asia (P. stantoni and P. colabaensis).