A comparison of chorionic sculpturing of four indian phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) by scanning electron microscopy

Les ornementations chorioniques de quatre especes indiennes de phlebotomes (Phlebotomus argentipes Annandale et Brunetti, P. papatasi (Scopoli), P. major major Annandale et Sergentomyia zeylanica Annandale) sont decrites par analyse en microscopie electronique a balayage. P. argentipes et P. papatasi possedent des ornementations chorioniques similaires, telles que les rainures paralleles connectees et les rainures en colonnes palisadees formees de plusieurs petits granules espaces en series doubles et orientes longitudinalement. Cependant, la morphologie de chaque rainure differe, en particulier aux deux extremites de l'oeuf ainsi qu'au niveau des zones de formation des aires hexagonales. La region entre les rainures ainsi que la couche basale des oeufs de P. papatasi se caracterisent par de multiples protuberances granuleuses ressemblant a des projections microvillositaires multiples. Chez P. argentipes, cette zone se presente sous forme d'une formation reticulaire constituee de materiel fibreux. Le motif de surface des oeufs de P. m. major et S. zeylanica est polygonale. Quant a celui de S. zeylanica, la quasi totalite des polygones sont de taille egale et chaque rainure est formee de cellules aplaties de differentes tailles organisees en palisade. Par contre, chez P. m. major, il n'y a aucune uniformite de taille et de forme des polygones et il semblerait que les rainures sont issues de la fusion de cellules aplaties. La specificite des motifs chorioniques s'avere etre un bon critere d'identification des differentes especes de phlebotomes et devrait en consequence etre utile a definir plus clairement la position taxonomique des diverses especes de phlebotomes.

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