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Morphometric and molecular differentiation of Phlebotomus (Phlebotomus) sandflies.
Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Dec 2010
Khalid N, Elnaiem D, Aboud M, Al Rabba F, Tripet F
Abstract excerpt
The closely related sandfly species of the subgenus Phlebotomus namely, Phlebotomus papatasi (Scopoli, 1786), Phlebotomus duboscqi Neveu-Lemair, 1906 and Phlebotomus bergeroti Parrot, 1934 (Diptera: Psychodidae), are major vectors of Leishmania major (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), the causative agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Old World. Although allopatric in most of their distribution, the three...
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