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SUBMITTER: Randrianambinintsoa FJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3671448 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Randrianambinintsoa F J FJ Depaquit J J Brengues C C Dhondt C C Yahaya I I Ouledi A A Léger N N Robert V V
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No Phlebotomine sandflies had ever been reported in the Comoros Archipelago, including the three islands of the Republic of the Union of Comoros (Grande Comore, Mohéli and Anjouan) and the French oversea department of Mayotte. During three field surveys carried out in 2003, 2007 and 2011, we provided the first record of Phlebotomine sandflies in this area. A total of 85 specimens belonging to three species were caught: a new species S. (Vattieromyia) pessoni n. sp. (two females from Grande Comor ...[more]