Article
Cryptic taxa in the morphospecies Bichromomyia flaviscutellata uncovered by expanded geographic sampling and COI DNA barcodes.
Acta tropica - 1 Sept 2026
Rodrigues Bruno Leite, Pinto Israel de Souza, de Oliveira Alessandra Gutierrez, Moreno Eduardo Stramandinoli, Baton Luke Anthony, Lopes Tânia de Azevedo, Shimabukuro Paloma Helena Fernandes, Galati Eunice Aparecida Bianchi
Abstract excerpt
The Neotropical sand fly species Bichromomyia flaviscutellata is widely distributed and the main vector of Leishmania amazonensis. Previous molecular studies suggested that it comprises at least two morphologically cryptic taxa, but sampling has remained geographically limited. In this study, we expanded specimen collection across 12 Brazilian municipalities spanning the Amazon, Cerrado, and Atlantic Forest...
Topics
- Animals
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Brazil
- Psychodidae
- DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Phylogeography
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA, Mitochondrial