Table 2 Key to sand fly species in Sri Lanka based on male morphology
From: Morphological identification keys for adults of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Sri Lanka
Style with 4 or 5 spines; not all spines terminal (Fig. 1b) | Genus Phlebotomus Loew, 1845 | |
Style with 4–5 spines, usually terminal; if not all spines terminal, 2 spines terminal and 2 sub-terminal, often in pairs (Fig. 1g) | Genus Sergentomyia (Franca & Parrot, 1920) | |
Genus Phlebotomus | ||
1a | Paramere with 2 long dorsal processes; style long, with 5 short spines (Fig. 4f) | P. (Phlebotomus) salehi Mesghali, 1965 |
1b | Paramere without processes or with short ventral processes; style long or short, with long spines (Fig. 2c, d) | 2a |
2a | Parameres tri-lobed. Style with 4 spines (Fig. 2d) | P. (Anaphlebotomus) stantoni (Newstead, 1914) |
2b | Parameres with 2 ventral processes; style with 5 spines, rarely 6 spines (Fig. 2c) | 3a [P. (Euphlebotomus) argentipes Annandale & Brunetti, in Annandale, 1908 (sensu lato)] |
3a | Gonocoxite: gonostyle ratio < 1.5 | P. (Euphlebotomus) glaucus Mitra & Roy, 1953 |
3b | Gonocoxite: gonostyle ratio > 1.5 | 4a |
4a | Gonocoxite: gonostyle ratio > 1.65 | P. (Euphlebotomus) argentipes Annandale & Brunetti, 1908 (sensu stricto) |
4b | Gonocoxite: gonostyle ratio > 1.75 | (Euphlebotomus) annandalei Sinton, 1923 |
Genus Sergentomyia | ||
1a | Aedeagus thick, finger-shaped (Fig. 2e) | 2a [subgenus Sergentomyia] |
1b | Aedeagus gradually tapering to the end (Fig. 2f) | 4a |
2a | Style with 2 terminal and 2 subterminal spines (Fig. 4g); cibarial teeth not uniform in size | S. (Sergentomyia) dentata (Sinton, 1933) |
2b | Style with 4 terminal spines and no subterminal spines (Fig. 2g); cibarial teeth uniform in size | 3a |
3a | Cibarial teeth arranged in 2 rows | S. (Sergentomyia) pondicherriensis Srinivasan & Jambulingam, 2010 |
3b | Cibarial teeth arranged in a single row | S. (Sergentomyia) punjabensis (Sinton, 1927) |
4a | Genital filaments with dilated ends; A3 without ascoid | 5a [subgenus Grassomyia] |
4b | Genital filaments with narrow ends (Fig. 2h); A3 with one ascoid | 6a |
5a | Paramere with rounded end (Fig. 4h) | S. (Grassomyia) indica (Theodor, 1931) |
5b | Paramere with hooked end (Fig. 4i) | S. (Grassomyia) dreyfussi Parrot, 1933 |
6a | Paramere with hairy ventral tubercles (Fig. 2i) | 7a [subgenus Neophlebotomus] |
6b | Paramere without ventral tubercles (Fig. 2j) | 9a [subgenus Parrotomyia] |
7a | Aedeagus length c.10 times mid-width of shaft (Fig. 2k) | S. (Neophlebotomus) arboris (Sinton, 1931) |
7b | Aedeagus length c.5 times mid-width of shaft | 8a |
8a | Outer hairs of the coxite evenly spaced | S. (Neophlebotomus) malayae (Lewis, 1957) |
8b | Outer hairs of the coxite not evenly spaced, some of the hairs concentrated (Fig. 2l) | S. (Neophlebotomus) zeylanica (Annandale, 1910) |
9a | Style c.4 times as long as thick; all spines on style | S. (Parrotomyia) barraudi (Sinton, 1929) |
9b | Style 5 or 6 times as long as thick; spines on style not always apical | 10a |
10a | Cibarial fore teeth well developed | S. (Parrotomyia) grekovi (Khodukin, 1929) |
10b | Cibarial fore teeth not well developed | 11a |
11a | Antennal segment 3 > 0.25 mm in length | S. (Parrotomyia) rudnicki Lewis, 1978 |
11b | Antenna segment 3 < 0.20 mm in length | S. (Parrotomyia) babu insularis (Theodor, 1938) |