Abstract

CACERES, Abraham G  and  GALATI, Eunice A. B. Lista de Phlebotominae (Diptera: Psychodidae) para el Perú y especies consideradas como vectores naturales e incriminadas en la transmisión de patógenos de la Leishmaniosis Tegumentaria y la Enfermedad de Carrión (verruga peruana). Rev. perú. med. exp. salud publica [online]. 2001, vol.18, n.3-4, pp.100-106. ISSN 1726-4634.

A list including 149 phlebotominae species present in Peru and distributed in 23 of 24 Peruvian Departments is presented. Taxonomy classification was based upon studies performed by Galati (1990 and 1995), and the following genera were found: Warileya (5 species), Brumptomyia (6), Ofigodontomyia (1), Micropygomyia (7), Scippemyia (5), Lutzomyia (30), Migonemyia (4), Pintornyia (16), Pressatia (4), Trichopygomyia (2), Evandromyia (7), Psathyromyia (17), Viannamyia (3), Martinsmyia (1), Bichromomyia (4), Psychodopygus (16), Nyssomyia (8), and Trichoporomyia (13). The geographic distribution of Pifanomyia verrucarum, the natural vector for Carrion's disease ("Peruvian wart") is also mentioned, as well as for five Phlebotomus species (P. robusta, P. maranonensis, P. serrana, L. peruensis y L. pescei), implicated as vectors for Bartonella bacilliformis; three Phlebotomus species (L. ayacuchensis, L. peruensis y L. tejadai), also considered as natural vectors, and two species (P verrucarum and L. pescei) incriminated as vectors for the agents causing tegumentary leishmaniasis in the western and inter-Andean valleys in the northern, central, and southern regions in Peru.

Keywords : Psychodidae; Insects vectors; Peru.