Pedrowygomyia Explained

Pedrowygomyia is a genus of neotropical simuliid flies erected in 1998 from the Gigantodax cortesi species group of the 1925 genus Gigantodax after a cladistics analysis of the species groups recognized in the genus indicated that it was paraphyletic.[1] [2] The genus was named in recognition of the contributions to science of entomologist Petr Wolfgang Wygodzinsky. Pedrowygomyia originally comprised four species, P. cortesi, P. jatunchuspi, P. punapi and P. chacabamba,[3] all described in 1989 from high-elevation (above 3,000 m) areas in the Andean region.[4] In 2020, a new species, P. hanaq, was described from the south-central Andes of Peru at an altitude above 4,000 m.[5] Based on the pupal stage, the new species appears to be most closely related to P. punapi, a species known from Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Daniel Rafael Miranda-Esquivel and Sixto Coscarón. 1998. Pedrowygomyia, a new Neotropical genus of Prosimuliini (Diptera: Simuliidae): Gigantodax s. lat. split into two genera. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 29(2):161–167, online publication date: 01 Jan 1998, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/187631298X00267.
  2. Jeane Marcelle Cavalcante do Nascimento, Neusa Hamada, Ana A Huamantinco-Araujo. 2020. Pedrowygomyia (Diptera: Simuliidae): Discovery of a New Species After 30 yr. Journal of Medical Entomology, tjaa270, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa270, Published: 16 December 2020.
  3. Daniel Rafael Miranda-Esquivel and Sixto Coscarón. 1998. Pedrowygomyia, a new Neotropical genus of Prosimuliini (Diptera: Simuliidae): Gigantodax s. lat. split into two genera. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 29(2):161–167, online publication date: 01 Jan 1998, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/187631298X00267.
  4. Jeane Marcelle Cavalcante do Nascimento, Neusa Hamada, Ana A Huamantinco-Araujo. 2020. Pedrowygomyia (Diptera: Simuliidae): Discovery of a New Species After 30 yr. Journal of Medical Entomology, tjaa270, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa270, Published: 16 December 2020.
  5. Jeane Marcelle Cavalcante do Nascimento, Neusa Hamada, Ana A Huamantinco-Araujo. 2020. Pedrowygomyia (Diptera: Simuliidae): Discovery of a New Species After 30 yr. Journal of Medical Entomology, tjaa270, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa270, Published: 16 December 2020.
  6. Jeane Marcelle Cavalcante do Nascimento, Neusa Hamada, Ana A Huamantinco-Araujo. 2020. Pedrowygomyia (Diptera: Simuliidae): Discovery of a New Species After 30 yr. Journal of Medical Entomology, tjaa270, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa270, Published: 16 December 2020.

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