Photographic atlas of phlebotomine sand flies collected in north-west and central east Belize
Ngwa Niba Rawlings, Mark Stephen Bailey, Bruno Leite Rodrigues, José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal, Orin Courtenay · 2026
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Ngwa Niba Rawlings and five co-authors publish a 2026 photographic atlas of sand flies collected in Belize, small biting insects that can carry the parasites behind leishmaniasis. Naming these flies has long depended on grey drawings and written keys that nonspecialists find hard to use.
Collections from north-west and central east Belize between 2023 and 2025 yielded twenty species, pictured in 65 colour microscope photographs. Two species had never been recorded in the country before. The guide shows the body parts that separate one species from another and adds a step-by-step identification key. Specimens are stored in a Brazilian reference collection for future checking.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ngwa Niba Rawlings, Mark Stephen Bailey, Bruno Leite Rodrigues, José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal, Orin Courtenay |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54251 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC0 |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |