7ª Contribuição ao estudo dos Flebotomus (Diptera: Psychodidae): descrição dos machos de 24 novas espécies

The A. and his co-workers captured in trips in the hinterland of Brazil more tham 17.000 flebotomi from which 35 are new ones, 11 discribed by, him in previous papers. The A. found these insects in groups of species living in different habitats, some ones of them not yet known: ondoors, or outdoors attracted by light or animal baits, without Shannon’s trap, in great or small caves, in the jungle in tree’s holes, holes in stones, holes in the soil habited by animals like armadillos, pacas (Aguti paca), wild rats, cururú toad (Bufo sp.). He observed the life history of 13 species: Flebotomus longipalpis Lutz& Neiva, 1912, Flebotomus intermedius Lutz & Neiva, 1912, Flebotomus avellari Costa Lima, 1932, Flebotomus aragãoi costa Lima, 1932, Flebotomus lutzianus Costa Lima, 1932, Flebotomus limai fonseca, 1935, Flebotomus rickardi Costa Lima, 1936, Flebotomus dasipodogeton Castro, 1939, Flebotomus oswaldoi n. sp., Flebotomus villelai n. sp., Flebotomus triacanthus n. sp., Flebotomus longispinus n. sp. And flebotomus travassosi n. sp. He describes the male of 24 n. sp., explaining the differential diagnose of group or nearly allied species. He inclued F. rooti n. sp. And F. hirsutus n. sp. In the sub-genus Shannonomyia. The first one, very allied to F. davisi Root is different from it, for presenting in the dorsal side of the abdomen bristles and not scales and to have the median claspers longer than his inner appendage and F. hirsutus quite different from the others which show 3 spines on distal segment of the upper clasper and for being the only one who presents the bristles of inner appendage of median clasper longer than it. Only the females of F. amazonensis Root and f. chagasi Costa Lima, are known and then it is possible that they belong to one of the species of this sub-genus from whom only the male have been described. F. choti Floch & Abonnenc, captured also at Pará, F. triacanthus n. sp. F. trispinosus n. sp. And F. equatorialis n. sp. Are very related and to this group the A. proposes the same of Pressatia as sub-genus in honor to whom demonstrated the medical importance of the flebotomi, considering F. triacanthus as the type specie of this sub-genus. In this sub-genus the V papal joint is very long, longer than III + IV, the antennae with geniculated spines without posterior outgrowth. At the genitalia the basal segment of the upper clasper presents two types of bristles ou the inner face, arranged in tuft; the distal segment with 3 spines and 2 thin bristles something difficult to see one of them situated near the apical spine and the other on the base of tubercle where the median spine is articulated; the median clasper is unarmed and compressed; the inferior clasper is also unarmed and longer than de basal segment of the upper clasper; the pompeta is longer than the basal segment of the upper clasper. Following it is presented a key for the determination of the males of the four species of this sub-genus. F. micropygus n. sp., F. minasensis n. sp. e F. dandrophylus n. sp., f. shannoni, F. monticolus, F. pestanai, F. lanei and F. cayenensis constitute a group with many similars characters. F. micropygus is the only American species who present α smaller than β and for that reason and others is allied to. F. minuts and others related species, but presents two terminal spines on the distal segment of the upper clasper. F. micropygus and f. minasensis are quite different because they have very small genitalia, smaller than their heads. F. dendrophylus presents on the median clasper a naked area near the apex and for this and others characters is different from the others of the group. F. flaviscutellatus n. sp., F. oliverioi, F. intermedius and whithmani, are very allied but the first one can be very easily distinguished because it’s scutellum is light. Flebotomus barrettoi n. sp., F. coutinhoi n. sp., F. aragãoi, F. brasiliensis, F. lutzianus, F. texanus, F. pascalei, F. atroclavatus and F. tejeraae are very allied forming a natural group. The two last ones are not well known but the A. A. who have studied them described very long clipeus so long as the head and for that reason can be distinguished from all the others included the two new ones. F. coutinhoi is the only one who presents the apecis of the penis filaments twisted. F. barrettoi n. sp., can be distinguished from aragãoi, texamus and coutinhoi by the length of the penis filaments and from atrocavatus, tejeraae, lutzianus and brasiliensis by the arrangement of the spines of distal segment of the upper clasper. Flebotomus ubiquitalis n. sp., F. auraensis n. sp., F. affinis and F. microps e F. antunesi have many common characters. F. microps n. sp., can be distinguished from any one by the size of the eyes and the presence od well developed genae. This species and other new species are different from F. antunesi by the arrangement of the spines of the distal segment of the upper clasper of the latter. F. ubiquitalis n. sp. can be distinguished from others by the figure of the median clasper. F. auraensis n. sp. Can be distinguished from F. affinis n. sp. By the tuft hairs on the inner face of the basal segment and by arrangement of the spines of the sital segment of the upper clasper. Flebotomus brachipygus n. sp. Seemed to be F. rostrans, specie not well known, by the characters of the genitalia but can not be identified to her by the clypeus size and the palpi’s characters. Flebotomus costalimai, n. sp., f. tupynambai n. sp., and f. castroi Barreto & Coutinho, 1941, are very allied species and the A. proposes to included them the new sub-genus Castromyia, in honor to Dr. G. M. de Oliveira Castro, appointing like typespecies F. castroi with the V joint longer than III + IV; antennae with geniculated spines without posterior prolongation. Genitalia: the basal segment of the upper clasper with a tuft of hairs and the distal segment with 4 spines, one of them at the apex and near it a thin and straight bristle difficult to see; the median clasper with one spinous hair isolated...

Algumas espécies novas da Bolívia, e referência a três espécies de Haemagogus

No estudo do material da Bolívia, cinco novas espécies são descritas: Taeniorhynchus (Rhynchotaenia) nitens [feminino], Psorophora (Janthinosoma) circumflava [feminino], Psorophora (Janthinosoma) melanota [masculino], Psorophora (Grabhamia) dimidiata [masculino] e [feminino], e Aedes (Howardina) aurivittatus [masculino]. Comnetários e descrições de três espécies de Haemagogus são feitos. O autor chama a atenção sôbre a validade de H. capricornii, apresentando figura da genitália do macho que até agora não fôra figurada. Revalida H. spegazzinii Brèthes que se achava na sinonímia de H. equinus Theob. e considera H. janthinomys Dyar seu sinônimo. Apresenta novo aspecto ao estudo das fêmeas de Haemagogus que atribui como caráter a freqüência no número de cerdas do nono tergito de cuja peça dá figuras comparativas. Apresenta ainda figura da genitália do macho de H. uriartei que apesar de descrita não havia sido figurada e finalmente comenta a distribuição geográfica das três espécies de Haemagogus.

Sobre a morfologia e ciclo evolutivo dos flagelados do genero Metasaccinobaculus n. gen. (Polymastigina, Oxymonadidae) do termita Kalotermes (Neotermes) Wagneri, Desneux, 1904, com a descrição de duas espécies novas

1) O A. descreve, no presente trabalho duas novas espécies de um novo gênero de flagelados (Metasaccinobaculus), colocado entre os Oxymo-nadidae, 2) Morfológicamente, caracterizam-se pela existência de um rostelo que juntamente com o aspecto geral e as esferas endoplasmáticas os aproxima dos oximonadideos, e pela presença de um axostilo ondulante dotado de movementos enérgicos, únicos responsáveis pela locomoção do protozoário. Os flagelos foram definitivamente perdidos. 3) No seu ciclo evolutivo o protozoário apresenta duas fórmas perfeitamente distintas: uma fórma jovem que nada livremente no fluido intes¬tinal do termita e uma fórma adulta, fixa pelo rostelo na parede do tubo digestivo do hospedeiro. A forma adulta e sacciforme, com um longo rostelo em cuja extremidade anterior existe um disco de fixação. O ectoplasma é espesso sobretudo na extremidade posterior, e o endoplasma cheio de esferas pardas. O componente cinético extranuclear é constituído por um axostilo ondulante muito cromófilo, por vêzes franjados nos bordos e preso a parede do corpo por uma estrutura tubular. Além desta organela, observa-se ainda dois sistema fibrilares. O primeiro é constituído de fibras rostelares e que ligam a porção ondulante do axostilo à extremidade do rostelo. O outro que denominamos fibrilas cromófobas independentes, nascem na extremidade do rostelo, percorrendo-o lateralmente em tôda a sua extensão e atingindo o corpo, onde se resolvem em feixes secundários que se espalham em todas as direções. O núcleo é formado de traves grosseiras de cromatina, formando um re¬tículo muito irregular. A forma jovem é muito menor, com rostelo e fibrilas cromófobas rudimentares. O axostilo ondulante relativamente muito desenvolvido, se fixa na extremidade posterior. Com o crescimento, este ponto vai-se deslocando em direção à região anterior do corpo. Nota-se perto do ponto de inserção, uma bainha de filamentos finíssimos envolvendo a porção tubular posterior do axostilo, bastante semelhante são de Saccinobaculus. O endoplasma é fortemente cromófilo, mas sem esferas. O núcleo a principio formado de granulos muito finos de cromatina e uniformemente dispersos, apresenta uma ou mais estruturas envolvidas por um halo claro, com a aparência de cariosoma. Cêdo porém desaparecem. 4) Antes da mitose, que é muito semelhante a de O. grandis, o núcleo desprende-se e caí na porção posterior do corpo, por degeneração de tôdas as organelas cinéticas extranucleares. A membrana nuclear persiste. Forma-se um fuso central muito desenvolvido. Os cromosomas são em número imenso, muito finos e irregulares. No lugar onde deveriam estar presentes os centríolos, vê-se um espaço claro circular na superfície do qual se inserem as fibrilas do fuso. Os novos axostilos ondulantes e demais organelas se formam nos pólos da figura mitótica, a partir dos centríolos perceptíveis pela sua imagem negativa, ou por uma estrutura hialina que envolve a figura mitótica, como é sugerido pelo exame de certas preparações (v. texto desenvolvido).

Isolamento e estudo experimental de duas novas culturas de bacilos ácido-alcool resistentes de muco nasal de leprosos

The A. described on December 14, 1951, his first culture of acid-fast bacillus isolated from nasal mucus of a leprous girl. in this paper the A. describes two new strains of acid-fast bacilli gotten also from nasal mucus of other two leprous girls, L3 cases. The first patient (layse S) had her mucus treated by petroff's method on December 16, 1952 and sown onto three tubes of loewenstein medium and in glycerin broth. After two weeks incubation at 37°C all three tubes of Loewenstein showed many punctiforme and pin-head yellowish colonies, whose microscopic examination proved to be of a pure acid-fast bacillus culture. This sample inoculated in rats and mice produced, after 55 days incubation, small tumors from which the culture was easily recovered. On April, 9, 1953 a new sample of nasal mucus of the same patient was sown in three tubes of Loewenstein. After two weeks incubation at 37°C all 3 tubes showed germination of small yellowish colonies of acid-fast bacilli. Within four months being gotten two samples of identical cultures in all smeared tubes of Loewenstein medium sown, proved that such cultures were not an ordinary ambient contamination. Second patient: - Maria N. After various sowing of different kinds of material from her, february 26, 1953 her nasal mucus treated by soda and sown onto Loewenstein medium, after 25 days incubation showed in only one tube, one small round colony, at first white, becoming creamy after three months. Transplants in various media grew at first slowly and after 2 or 3 generations grew faster. The "Layse" strain produced pellicle in glycerin broth and Dubos medium; the "Maria N." strain did not produce as yet. Both strains (Layse I and II, and Maria N.) gave weak positive Dubos test in half-an-hour and negative after 24 hours reading. Both were strongly positive when stained by Gram, Ziehl-Neelsen and Fontes methods. Both strains gave also positive fluoroscopy. These cultures are being studied. The A. concludes that, according to his experience, the slower growing cultures of acid-fast bacilli isolated from leprosy material, are the more suitable for experimental work. Aknowledgement. The A. thanks to Miss MARIA DE LOURDES SANTANA for her valuable collaboration in the studies of the described cultures.

Espécies novas do Herbário do Dr. Adolpho Lutz: Melastomataceae Tibouchina Lutzii Brade n.sp

A posição desta espécie é após Tibouchina floribunda Cogn. No hábito assemelha-se a Tibouchina Schwackei Cogn. mas distingue-se bem desta pelo revestimento diferente e a côr alva da página inferior da folha.

Notas sôbre o gênero Colobogaster Solier, 1833, com a descrição de duas novas espécies da Região Amazônica: (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)

The study of materials belonging to several brazilian collections led us discover 2 new species of the genus Colobogaster which are here described. C. seabrai sp. n. seems to be related to C. puncticollis Waterhouse, 1882, from which it can be distinguished by: a) apical alitral tooth placed suturally, b) pronotum with 3 pairs of depressions, the 1st. pair transversal and conigous to the 2nd one, c) elitral suture brilliantgreen coloured but not the marginal edge, d) front without a horse-shoe shaped structure, e) pronotum with the discal region concolor. The structures of pronotum, the elitral and pronotal colour paterns and the genial morphology separate this one from other species of the genus. C. paraensis sp. n. is closely related to C. cupricollis Kerremans, 1897, but it is distinguished by the absence of depressions on the pronotum, by the elitral tooth placed suturally, by the abscence of humeral rip and by the general colour. Eleven other species were studied and their apical segment of the abdomen and scutellum were illustrated. It was also established the synonymy of C. ecuadoricus Obengerger, 1926.