Abstract

SIERRA A, Diana; VELEZ B, Iván Darío  and  URIBE S, Sandra. Identificación de Lutzomyia spp. (Diptera: Psychodidae) grupo verrucarum por medio de microscopia electrónica de sus huevos. Rev. biol. trop [online]. 2000, vol.48, n.2-3, pp.615-622. ISSN 0034-7744.

The value of Colombian phlebotomine eggs for species determination was studied with a scanning electron microscope. The species diversity and medical importance of the verrucarum group were the bases to select Lutzomyia youngi, Lutzomyia evansi, Lutzomyia columbiana and Lutzomyia longiflocosa. The egg surface was poligonal. Lutzomyia youngi, and Lutzomyia columbiana had pentagonal or hexagonal patterns; Lutzomyia evansi elongated polygons and Lutzomyia longiflocosa irregular polygonal sculpturing, frequently rectangular. Egg scanning electron microscopy is reliable to identify species of the verrucarum group.

Keywords : Electronic microscopy; Lutzomyia; verrucarum group; sculpturing models; poligonal model.