Author(s): Muna Z. Qadoumi, Sami K. Abdel-Hafez and Shaden A. Kamhawi
Article publication date: 1999-04-01
Vol. 17 No. 1 (yearly), pp. 111-126.
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Keywords
larvae, Phlebotomus, Jordan
Abstract
The morphological characteristics of the larval stages of four laboratory-reared PhLebotomus species. collected from Jordan, were studied. The length, shape and distribution of body hairs of the fourth larval instar (L4) of P. syriacus, P. mascitti, P. kazeruni and P. tobbi formed a pattern that can distinguish one species from another P. tobbi possessed a single pair of caudal bristles. Distinctive chaetotactic features of L4 instars of the described four species were compared to those of P. Langeroni.