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    Lutzomyia is a genus of phlebotomine sand flies consisting of nearly 400 species, at least 33 of which have medical importance as vectors of human disease...
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    Lutzomyia longipalpis (L. longipalpis) is a species complex of sandfly belonging to the family Psychodidae. This species is primarily present in Central...
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    In the New World, leishmaniasis is spread by sand flies in the genus Lutzomyia, which commonly live in caves, where their main hosts are bats.[citation...
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  • Lutzomyia shannoni is a species of fly in the subfamily Phlebotominae, the phlebotomine sand flies. It is native to the Americas from the southeastern...
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    Lutzomyia adiketis is an extinct species of sandfly in the moth fly subfamily Phlebotominae. L. adiketis is a vector of the extinct Paleoleishmania neotropicum...
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    Phlebotomus; in the Americas, the disease is spread by sandflies of the genus Lutzomyia. Belize and Honduras are notorious in the Caribbean for their sandfly...
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  • the order Diptera and it is a common vector for Leishmania mexicana. Lutzomyia anthophora are holometabolous insects. They begin their life cycle as...
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    Fossil nematoceran in Dominican amber. Sandfly, Lutzomyia adiketis (Psychodidae), Early Miocene, c. 20 million years ago...
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    generally spread through the bite of phlebotomine sandflies, Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia, and occurs most frequently in the tropics and sub-tropics of Africa,...
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    sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus in the Old World, and of the genus Lutzomyia in the New World. At least 93 sandfly species are proven or probable vectors...
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    †Libanophlebotomus Azar et al., 1999 Lebanese amber Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Lutzomyia França, 1924 (North and South America) †Mandalayia Stebner et al., 2015...
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    species of sandfly belonging to the genus Phlebotomus in Old World and Lutzomyia in New World. The species complex it represents is prevalent throughout...
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    species: Lutzomyia torvida, Lutzomyia falcata, and Lutzomyia tolimensis. Given her research contributions, a sandfly species was named after her: Lutzomyia ferroae...
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    Retrieved 14 May 2020. Rêgo, Felipe D.; Soares, Rodrigo Pedro (2021). "Lutzomyia longipalpis: an update on this sand fly vector". Anais da Academia Brasileira...
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    (Culicidae) Botflies (as larvae, Oestridae) Sandflies (Phlebotomidae) Lutzomyia Phlebotomus Blow-flies (as larvae, Calliphoridae) Screw-worm flies (as...
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    dogs are the natural reservoir of this organism. The sandfly species Lutzomyia longipalpis serves as the primary vector for the transmission of the disease...
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    composition of Eucalyptus spp. essential oils and their insecticidal effects on Lutzomyia longipalpis" (PDF). Veterinary Parasitology. 167 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1016/j...
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    more than one million die. Leishmaniasis – Vectors: species in the genus Lutzomyia in the New World and Phlebotomus in the Old World. Two million people...
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    transmission in the New World, is generally via sand flies of the genus Lutzomyia. The protozoan parasite itself is a species of the genus Leishmania. Leishmaniasis...
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  • leishmaniasis – Old World; mucocutaneous leishmaniasis – New World Phlebotomus, Lutzomyia – bite of several species of phlebotomine sandflies Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis...
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    persistent. One confirmed vector of the virus is the phlebotomine sand fly Lutzomyia shannoni. The genome of VSIV is on a single molecule of negative-sense...
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  • leishmaniasis with the sand fly Lutzomyia migonei as the insect vector. In addition, in 2001, she identified the species Lutzomyia psudolongipalpis within the...
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    species of sandfly of the genus Phlebotomus in the Old World, and of Lutzomyia in the New World. Sandflies are tiny flies, measuring 3–6 mm long by 1...
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    from the Tupi–Guarani language and means "little fly". It refers to the Lutzomyia fly, very common at the area. The city is known for its children's footwear...
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  •  carpenteri Binomial name Psathyromyia carpenteri (Fairchild & Hertig, 1953) Synonyms Phlebotomus carpenteri Psychodopygus carpenteri Lutzomyia carpenteri...
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    the species host, a relatively complete female sandfly of the species Lutzomyia adiketis. P. neotropicum and L. adiketis are preserved in a polished piece...
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    Elaphidion tocanum Formicodiplogaster myrmenema Leptofoenus pittfieldae Lutzomyia adiketis Neocorynura electra Nesagapostemon cf. Nesoctites Odontomachus...
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  •  512 pp. 2 pls. Rapp, W.F. Jr. (1945). "Pseudolutzomyia, new name for Lutzomyia Curran, 1934 (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington...
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    United States in 2000) New World leishmaniasis strains are spread by Lutzomyia; however, research speculates the North American sandfly could be capable...
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    leishmaniasis in the Old World are sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus, while Lutzomyia and those within the family Psychodidae (especially the genus Psychodopygus)...
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