Lutzomyia adiketis sp. n. (Diptera: Phlebotomidae), a vector of Paleoleishmania neotropicum sp. n. (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) in Dominican amber

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Fossilized digenetic kinetoplastids
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Kevin Tyler (16 July 2008) University of East Anglia

A really impressive and interesting paper. I simply hadn't realized that the degree of resolution necessary to distiguish putative life-cycle stages of protozoan parasites was possible from 100 million year old fossilized vectors.

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validation of scientific names proposed here

George Poinar (16 December 2008) Oregon State University

In accordance with section 8.6 of the ICZN's International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, we have deposited copies of this article at the following five publicly accessible libraries: Natural History Museum, London, UK; American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA; Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Academia Sinica, Taipei.

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