Leishmaniose tegumentar americana: flebotomíneos de área de transmissão no município de Teodoro Sampaio, região sudoeste do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Abstract

Sandflies were captured in a secondary forest zone in the county of Teodoro Sampaio, São Paulo, during 12 months as from May 1994. Two houses located respectively at 240 m and 850 m from the semi-deciduous forest were selected. Night Center of Disease Control trap captures were performed fortnightly from twilight to dawn intradomiciliarily, in the edge and the interior of the forest and in the peridomicile of each one of the houses. Captures were realized as well in the peridomicile using Shannon traps during 6 hour for 24 captures and 4 quarter captures from twilight to dawn. The dominant species was Lutzomyia intermedia (93.5%). A larger number of insects were captured in the traps located in the edge of the forest. In the peridomicile of both houses an equivalent number of insects were captured, although a clear predominance of males was observed in the more distant located house. In the interior of the house located near the forest a larger number of specimens predominantly female were captured. L. intermedia and L. whitmani peaks occurred in the first hour and were characteristically more abundant in May, September and December when the mean temperature varied from 21 to 25.7 degrees C and the pluviometric index as from 66.7 to 195.1 mm.

Fauna of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) in areas with endemic American cutaneous leishmaniasis in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

“…Nova Andradina had less than 2% of specimens captured, and showed the second lowest diversity value (Table I, Massafera et al (2005) and Silva et al (2008) in the State of Paraná. In the state of São Paulo, Condino et al (1998) also observed a higher density of Ny. neivai in the city of Teodoro Sampaio.…”

Study on phlebotomine sand fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) fauna in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

“…Usually, phlebotomines are found in high densities during rainy summer months (Gomes & Galati 1987, Salomón et al 2003. On the other hand, Condino et al (1998) have reported no relationship between such factors and the phlebotomine sand fly density. In Porterinha (north of the state of Minas Gerais), frequency of precipitation showed to affect directly the amount of phlebotomine collected in the region (Barata et al 2004).…”

Phlebotominae sand flies in Paraguay: abundance distribution in the Southeastern region

“…neivai seasonal abundance showed activity from August-September to April-March (spring to fall) with a single peak or a bimodal pattern. Consistently, phlebotomine populations usually showed the highest density peaks during the warm-humid months, and the lowest in the cold-dry season, both in Brazil and Argen- tina (Aguiar & Soucasaux 1984, Gomes & Galati 1987, Salomón et al 2002, although the density is not always correlated with the rainfall and the temperature (Condino et al 1998). The Bella Vista 2000-2001 peak may be due to the fact that sand flies were collected there during the winter of year 2000, captures not observed in other sites or years.…”