Ecological aspects of American cutaneous leishmaniasis: 6. Man-biting sandfly fauna of a patch of residual forest in the middle and north-eastern region of the São Paulo State, Brazil

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Almério de Castro Gomes, José Maria Soares Barata, Eduardo Olavo Rocha e Silva, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1989
• Subjects: Leishmaniose tegumentar; ecologia; flebotomíneo; transmissão; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651989000100007; https://doaj.org/article/b5f75b901823451c81b0c7ab1aa3bd4d

This report shows the phlebotomine vectorial role in the endemic cutaneous leishmaniasis situated in the middle and north-eastern region of the São Paulo, Brazil. Analysis of information encloses a sandfly man-biting fauna of four different patches of residual forest. So, using the human-bait and Shannon trap for a period of one year we have caught 16,869 sandflies. The predominance of Lutzomyia intermedia (85,6%) was clear. Moreover, the low density of Lutzomyia whitmani and Lutzomyia pessoai and their epidemiological implications at present and in the past are discussed. Information about the daily activity of some species is given and we emphasize for the first time, the diurnal activity of Lutzomyia firmatoi in the São Paulo State.