Traviezo VLE

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ABSTRACT

Female Lutzomyia pastorae n. sp. is described. Captured in the town of La Matíca, Andrés Eloy Blanco municipally, Lara State, Venezuela. The species can be identified by the characteristic shape of the spermatheca. It belongs to Verrucarum Group, Theodor (1965).

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