Lutzomyia longipalpis Lutz & Neiva

Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva) Phlebotomus longipalpis Lutz & Neiva, 1912: 89 (male, female). Type locality: Brazil. Lutzomyia longipalpis: Theodor 1965: 181; Forattini 1973: 213; Young & Duncan 1994: 56. Literature records in Uruguay. Salomón et al. (2011). Salto, Departamento de Salto; Bella Unión, Departamento de Artigas. Satragno et al. (2017). Arenitas Blancas, Salto. Remarks. This species is the main vector of visceral leishmaniasis in America. The first autochthonous canine record of the disease in Uruguay occurred in 2015 in the northern part of the territory (Satragno et al. 2017).Published as part of Canneva, Bruno, 2019, A new species of Laurenceomyia Wagner & Stuckenberg, with a key to species and new records for Psychodidae (Diptera) from Uruguay, pp. 407-418 in Zootaxa 4544 (3) on page 411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/261842