Octavio Mangabeira Filho – Neglected Science

Octavio Mangabeira Filho, Brazilian medical entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 13 July 1913 – Salvador 04 May 1963)

Recognized as world authority on leishmaniasis vectors studies

World pioneer on morphology and determination of periods of development phases in Phlebotominae under laboratorial conditions

Standardized sandflies breeding under laboratorial conditions

Genera

Evandromyia 1941

Viannamyia 1941

Subgenera

Castromyia 1942

Pressatia 1942

Psychodopygus 1942

Species

About 50 Sandflies species

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