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Articles • Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 102 (8) • Dec 2007 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02762007005000110   copy

Description of Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleotrichia, a Miocene period new species from the Dominican Republic (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae)

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A new fossil species of phlebotomine sandflies is described from Dominican amber based in one specimen. Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleotrichia sp. nov. is distinguished from the other extant and extinct species by aspects of paramere and the basal tuft of bristles in the gonocoxite.

Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleotrichia; amber; fossil; Phlebotominae

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