Phlebotomus (Phlebotomus) bergeroti Parrot, 1934 The male is characterised by the presence of two spines at the end of the surstyle. The gonocoxite has a subapical tuft not exceeding ten setae. The upper part of the paramere is slightly longer than the other ones and covered with bristles in its distal half only. The female is identified by its annealed spermathecae with sessile head, by a pharynx armed with teeth without spines or denticles on the posterior part and by the presence of anterior bilateral teeth. Ascoids reach or exceed the next articulation. The distribution of Ph. bergeroti is wide: from Morocco to Iran. Its southern limit is the Sudan. In Oman, it is a scarce species in the Sharqiyah and the semi-arid zone of Dhofar, but it becomes abundant in the perarid part of the latter region. The strong anthropophily of Ph. bergeroti, and its abundance in certain perarid areas [2, 44] are arguments in favor of a significant vector role for L. major in the extreme deserts of Africa and the Arabian peninsula.

Published as part of Rioux, Jean-Antoine, Gramiccia, Marina, Léger, Nicole, Desjeux, Philippe & Depaquit, Jérôme, 2020, Leishmaniasis and phlebotomine sand flies in Oman Sultanate, pp. 1-13 in Parasite (Paris, France) (Paris, France) 27 (68) on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2020064, http://zenodo.org/record/12524365