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Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Ankarana tsingy of northern Madagascar: inventory and description of new taxa

An inventory of Phlebotomine sandflies was carried out in the Ankarana tsingy located in far northern Madagascar. A total of 723 sandflies were used for morphological, morphometric, and molecular studies (sequencing of partial cytochrome B (mtDNA) and partial 28S (rDNA)). Nine species were identifie...

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Autores principales: Blavier, Antoine, Laroche, Laetitia, Randrianambinintsoa, Fano José, Lucas, Vincent, Gantier, Jean-Charles, Léger, Nicole, Robert, Vincent, Depaquit, Jérôme
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Publicado: EDP Sciences 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6601424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31259684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2019039
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author Blavier, Antoine
Laroche, Laetitia
Randrianambinintsoa, Fano José
Lucas, Vincent
Gantier, Jean-Charles
Léger, Nicole
Robert, Vincent
Depaquit, Jérôme
author_facet Blavier, Antoine
Laroche, Laetitia
Randrianambinintsoa, Fano José
Lucas, Vincent
Gantier, Jean-Charles
Léger, Nicole
Robert, Vincent
Depaquit, Jérôme
author_sort Blavier, Antoine
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description An inventory of Phlebotomine sandflies was carried out in the Ankarana tsingy located in far northern Madagascar. A total of 723 sandflies were used for morphological, morphometric, and molecular studies (sequencing of partial cytochrome B (mtDNA) and partial 28S (rDNA)). Nine species were identified: Phlebotomus fertei, Sergentomyia anka, Se. sclerosiphon, Se. goodmani, two species of the genus Grassomyia, as well as three new species described herein: Se. volfi n. sp., Se. kaltenbachi n. sp., and Se. ozbeli n. sp. The recognition of these new species is strongly supported by molecular analyses. The first two of the new species could not be classified into any existing subgenus, therefore we proposed two new subgenera (Ranavalonomyia subg. nov., and Riouxomyia subg. nov.), with combinations as: Sergentomyia (Ranavalonomyia) volfi and Sergentomyia (Riouxomyia) kaltenbachi. Our study reveals important molecular variability in Se. anka, with the recognition of a population whose taxonomic status remains below that of species. Our research confirms the need to further study the specific diversity of Malagasy sandflies, which until the start of this millennium remained mostly unknown.
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spelling pubmed-66014242019-07-17 Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Ankarana tsingy of northern Madagascar: inventory and description of new taxa Blavier, Antoine Laroche, Laetitia Randrianambinintsoa, Fano José Lucas, Vincent Gantier, Jean-Charles Léger, Nicole Robert, Vincent Depaquit, Jérôme Parasite Research Article An inventory of Phlebotomine sandflies was carried out in the Ankarana tsingy located in far northern Madagascar. A total of 723 sandflies were used for morphological, morphometric, and molecular studies (sequencing of partial cytochrome B (mtDNA) and partial 28S (rDNA)). Nine species were identified: Phlebotomus fertei, Sergentomyia anka, Se. sclerosiphon, Se. goodmani, two species of the genus Grassomyia, as well as three new species described herein: Se. volfi n. sp., Se. kaltenbachi n. sp., and Se. ozbeli n. sp. The recognition of these new species is strongly supported by molecular analyses. The first two of the new species could not be classified into any existing subgenus, therefore we proposed two new subgenera (Ranavalonomyia subg. nov., and Riouxomyia subg. nov.), with combinations as: Sergentomyia (Ranavalonomyia) volfi and Sergentomyia (Riouxomyia) kaltenbachi. Our study reveals important molecular variability in Se. anka, with the recognition of a population whose taxonomic status remains below that of species. Our research confirms the need to further study the specific diversity of Malagasy sandflies, which until the start of this millennium remained mostly unknown. EDP Sciences 2019-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6601424/ /pubmed/31259684 http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2019039 Text en © A. Blavier et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2019 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Blavier, Antoine
Laroche, Laetitia
Randrianambinintsoa, Fano José
Lucas, Vincent
Gantier, Jean-Charles
Léger, Nicole
Robert, Vincent
Depaquit, Jérôme
Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Ankarana tsingy of northern Madagascar: inventory and description of new taxa
title Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Ankarana tsingy of northern Madagascar: inventory and description of new taxa
title_full Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Ankarana tsingy of northern Madagascar: inventory and description of new taxa
title_fullStr Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Ankarana tsingy of northern Madagascar: inventory and description of new taxa
title_full_unstemmed Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Ankarana tsingy of northern Madagascar: inventory and description of new taxa
title_short Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Ankarana tsingy of northern Madagascar: inventory and description of new taxa
title_sort phlebotomine sandflies (diptera, psychodidae) from the ankarana tsingy of northern madagascar: inventory and description of new taxa
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6601424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31259684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2019039
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