A checklist of phlebotomine sand flies of Ecuador (49 species and subspecies), with additional comments on some species, is given. The female of Lutzomyia abunaensis (species-group aragaoi), both sexes of L. (Trichophoromyia) napoensis, n. sp., L. (Trichophoromyia) wilkersoni, n. sp., and L. tortura, n. sp. (species-group vexator), are described. Three closely related and anthropophilic sand flies in the subgenus Psychodopygus (“L. davisi complex”) are keyed and illustrated.
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