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Ortiz DGS, Pinto MC, Cesario M, Galati EAB, Molina SMG, Borges DA. Three new records of the genus Lutzomyia of the subgenus Helcocyrtomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) from Southwestern Brazilian Amazonia. Acta Trop 2019; 197:104778. [PMID: 30213616 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2018.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2017] [Revised: 08/25/2018] [Accepted: 09/08/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The sand fly phlebotomine fauna of the Brazilian municipality of Assis Brasil, Acre was sampled between April 2013 and March 2014 using modified CDC light traps. A total of 22,334 sand flies were collected, 41 of them belonging to three species: Lutzomyia gonzaloi, Lu. kirigetiensis and Lu. munaypata, of the subgenus Helcocyrtomyia, which have previously only been recorded in Peru. This paper presents their first reported collection in Brazil.
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Morphological discontinuous variation and disparity in Lutzomyia (Tricholateralis) cruciata Coquillett, 1907 are not related to contrasting environmental factors in two biogeographical provinces. ZOOMORPHOLOGY 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s00435-019-00450-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Mikery OF, Rebollar-Téllez EA, Cruz-López LC, Marina CF, Castillo A. Traditional and Geometric Morphometry Analyses of Lutzomyia cruciata (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) Populations of Chiapas, Mexico. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY 2019; 56:697-707. [PMID: 30615180 DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjy227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The presence of Lutzomyia (Tricholateralis) cruciata (Coquillett 1907) species complex has been suggested by morphological analysis of eggs and genetic studies of females. The present work aimed to compare the diversity in morphology of four populations of Lu. cruciata from the Coast of Chiapas, Mexico, using traditional (TM) and geometric (GM) methods. Several morphological characteristics that were analyzed provided consistency to differentiate at least, three populations of Lu. cruciata. Both methods were effective to detect morphological differences associated with the geographical sites of capture. In both sexes, three and four groups were detected by TM and GM, respectively. These results suggest marked morphological differences in both sexes of Lu. cruciata that make these methods potentially useful to identify the geographical origin of any specimen of this species captured in the study region. Although the results produced by both methods are coincident, geometric morphometrics turned out to be most advantageous with respect to traditional morphometry, since the latter requires more time and effort. The consistency of our results shows that the variability of environmental conditions on the coast of Chiapas determines a high degree of phenotypic plasticity in Lu. cruciata, with the possibility of prezygotic isolation and the formation of species complex.
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- O F Mikery
- Departamento de Agricultura, Sociedad y Ambiente, Grupo de Ecología y Manejo de Artrópodos, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Carretera Antiguo Aeropuerto, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
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- Departamento de Zoología de Invertebrados, Laboratorio de Entomología Médica, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), Cd. Universitaria, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, México
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- Departamento de Agricultura, Sociedad y Ambiente, Grupo de Ecología y Manejo de Artrópodos, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Carretera Antiguo Aeropuerto, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
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- Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública-INSP, Tapachula, Chiapas, México
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- Departamento de Agricultura, Sociedad y Ambiente, Grupo de Ecología y Manejo de Artrópodos, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Carretera Antiguo Aeropuerto, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
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Schellenberger Costa D, Classen A, Ferger S, Helbig-Bonitz M, Peters M, Böhning-Gaese K, Steffan-Dewenter I, Kleyer M. Relationships between abiotic environment, plant functional traits, and animal body size at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0174157. [PMID: 28319155 PMCID: PMC5358856 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2016] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The effect-response framework states that plant functional traits link the abiotic environment to ecosystem functioning. One ecosystem property is the body size of the animals living in the system, which is assumed to depend on temperature or resource availability, among others. For primary consumers, resource availability may directly be related to plant traits, while for secondary consumers the relationship is indirect. We used plant traits to describe resource availability along an elevational gradient on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Using structural equation models, we determined the response of plant traits to changes in precipitation, temperature and disturbance with and assessed whether abiotic conditions or community-weighted means of plant traits are stronger predictors of the mean size of bees, moths, frugivorous birds, and insectivorous birds. Traits indicating tissue density and nutrient content strongly responded to variations in precipitation, temperature and disturbance. They had direct effects on pollination and fruit traits. However, the average body sizes of the animal groups considered could only be explained by temperature and habitat structure, not by plant traits. Our results demonstrate a strong link between traits and the abiotic environment, but suggest that temperature is the most relevant predictor of mean animal body size. Community-weighted means of plant traits and body sizes appear unsuitable to capture the complexity of plant-animal interactions.
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Frankfurt, Germany
- Institute for Ecology, Evolution & Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Main), Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Análisis morfométrico de dos poblaciones de Anopheles (Anopheles) calderoni (Diptera: Culicidae) del suroccidente colombiano. REV MEX BIODIVERS 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rmb.2016.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Moo-Llanes D, Ibarra-Cerdeña CN, Rebollar-Téllez EA, Ibáñez-Bernal S, González C, Ramsey JM. Current and future niche of North and Central American sand flies (Diptera: psychodidae) in climate change scenarios. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2013; 7:e2421. [PMID: 24069478 PMCID: PMC3777871 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2013] [Accepted: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Ecological niche models are useful tools to infer potential spatial and temporal distributions in vector species and to measure epidemiological risk for infectious diseases such as the Leishmaniases. The ecological niche of 28 North and Central American sand fly species, including those with epidemiological relevance, can be used to analyze the vector's ecology and its association with transmission risk, and plan integrated regional vector surveillance and control programs. In this study, we model the environmental requirements of the principal North and Central American phlebotomine species and analyze three niche characteristics over future climate change scenarios: i) potential change in niche breadth, ii) direction and magnitude of niche centroid shifts, iii) shifts in elevation range. Niche identity between confirmed or incriminated Leishmania vector sand flies in Mexico, and human cases were analyzed. Niche models were constructed using sand fly occurrence datapoints from Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Nine non-correlated bioclimatic and four topographic data layers were used as niche components using GARP in OpenModeller. Both B2 and A2 climate change scenarios were used with two general circulation models for each scenario (CSIRO and HadCM3), for 2020, 2050 and 2080. There was an increase in niche breadth to 2080 in both scenarios for all species with the exception of Lutzomyia vexator. The principal direction of niche centroid displacement was to the northwest (64%), while the elevation range decreased greatest for tropical, and least for broad-range species. Lutzomyia cruciata is the only epidemiologically important species with high niche identity with that of Leishmania spp. in Mexico. Continued landscape modification in future climate change will provide an increased opportunity for the geographic expansion of NCA sand flys' ENM and human exposure to vectors of Leishmaniases.
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- David Moo-Llanes
- Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública (CRISP), Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP), Tapachula, Chiapas, México
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- Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública (CRISP), Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP), Tapachula, Chiapas, México
- Departamento de Ecología Humana, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV), Mérida, Yucatán, México
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- Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Zoología de Invertebrados, Cuidad Universitaria, San Nicolás de los Garzas, Nuevo León, México
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- Red Ambiente y Sustentabilidad, Instituto de Ecología A.C. (INECOL), Veracruz, México
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Parasitología Tropical (CIMPAT), Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública (CRISP), Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP), Tapachula, Chiapas, México
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Cárdenas RE, Hernández-L N, Barragán ÁR, Dangles O. Differences in Morphometry and Activity among Tabanid Fly Assemblages in an Andean Tropical Montane Cloud Forest: Indication of Altitudinal Migration? Biotropica 2012. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00885.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Rafael E. Cárdenas
- Museo de Zoología QCAZ; Laboratorio de Entomología; Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Av. 12 de octubre 1076 y Roca Apdo. 17-01-2184 Quito Ecuador
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- Museo de Zoología QCAZ; Laboratorio de Entomología; Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Av. 12 de octubre 1076 y Roca Apdo. 17-01-2184 Quito Ecuador
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- Museo de Zoología QCAZ; Laboratorio de Entomología; Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Av. 12 de octubre 1076 y Roca Apdo. 17-01-2184 Quito Ecuador
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- Museo de Zoología QCAZ; Laboratorio de Entomología; Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Av. 12 de octubre 1076 y Roca Apdo. 17-01-2184 Quito Ecuador
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UR 072, LEGS-CNRS, UPR 9034, CNRS 91198 Gif-sur Yvette Cedex; and Université Paris-Sud 11; 91405 Orsay Cedex France
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Chown SL, Gaston KJ. Body size variation in insects: a macroecological perspective. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2010; 85:139-69. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.2009.00097.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 455] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Bidau CJ, Martí DA. Dichroplus vittatus (Orthoptera: Acrididae) follows the converse to Bergmann's rule although male morphological variability increases with latitude. BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2007; 97:69-79. [PMID: 17298684 DOI: 10.1017/s0007485307004749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Geographic body size variation was analysed in males and females of 19 populations of the South American grasshopper Dichroplus vittatus Bruner spanning 20 degrees of latitude and 2700 m of altitude. Using mean and maximum body length of each sex and factors obtained from principal components analyses of six morphometric linear characters it was shown that D. vittatus followed the converse to Bergmann's rule latitudinally but not altitudinally where no significant trends were observed. For males, variability of body size increased with latitude but not with altitude. Both types of trends were significantly correlated with mean annual temperature and minimum annual temperature (positive correlations), and two estimators of seasonality, the coefficients of variation of mean annual temperature (negative) and mean annual precipitation (positive). Some allometric relationships also showed geographic variation. It is suggested that the observed decrease in size with latitude together with the increase in morphological variability is a consequence of a number of factors: the shortening of the growing season southwards; the increasing seasonality and climatic unpredictability; and the fact that the species exhibits protandry which contributes to smaller and more variable size in males and smaller but more constant body size in females.
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- C J Bidau
- Laboratório de Biologia e Controle da Esquistossomose, Departamento de Medicina Tropical, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
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Guernaoui S, Boumezzough A, Laamrani A. Altitudinal structuring of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the High-Atlas mountains (Morocco) and its relation to the risk of leishmaniasis transmission. Acta Trop 2006; 97:346-51. [PMID: 16460654 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2006.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2005] [Revised: 12/21/2005] [Accepted: 01/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This paper presents the results of entomological surveys on phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the Haouz of Marrakech and High-Atlas mountains (Morocco). Sand flies were captured with sticky traps from 25 stations with altitudes ranging between 400 and 1400 m. A total of 2742 specimens belonging to nine phlebotomine species was collected, Phlebotomus (Larroussius) perniciosus Newstead being the predominant species. There was a remarkable difference in the diversity of the sand fly fauna among the altitudes. Two associations of sand fly faunas were determined, the first one in lower altitude and the second one in higher altitude. The significance of the predominant species at any altitude range was discussed in terms of the risk of transmission of leishmaniasis.
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- S Guernaoui
- Geodes Unit, Institute of Research for Development (IRD), 32, Avenue Henri Varagnat, 93143 Bondy Cedex, France.
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Marcondes CB, Alexander B. Correlation of male genital filaments and female spermathecal ducts in New World sand flies of the Lutzomyia intermedia species complex (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae). Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 2003; 98:611-3. [PMID: 12973526 DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762003000500005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The lengths of the male genital filaments and female spermathecal ducts were measured in phlebotomine sand flies of the Lutzomyia intermedia species complex and the ratios between these characters calculated. Ratios for L. intermedia s. s. from Northeast vs Southeast Brazil (Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais), Espírito Santo/Minas Gerais vs Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo and L. intermedia vs L. neivai were significantly different at P < 0.1, 0.05 and 0.01 respectively when compared using ANOVA. The spermathecal ducts and genital filaments of L. intermedia were significantly longer than those of L. neivai (P < 0.01) and could be used to differentiate these species. The taxonomic and biological significance of these differences is discussed.
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- Carlos Brisola Marcondes
- Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.
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