Sand Fly Species Composition (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in the Municipality of Cantagalo , an Area With Sporadic Cases of Human Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Rio De Janeiro State, Brazil

Abstract

SUMMARYThe municipality of Cantagalo is an area with sustained transmission of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL). Monthly sand fly collections were performed for three years (June 2012 - May 2015) using a CDC light trap. A total of 3,310 specimens belonging to 12 species were trapped: Nyssomyia intermedia, Nyssomyia whitmani, Migonemyia migonei, Evandromyia lenti, Evandromyia cortelezzii, Micropygomyia quinquefer, Brumptomyia brumpti, Psathyromyia aragaoi, Micropygomyia schreiberi, Pintomyia fischeri, Sciopemyia sordellii, and Evandromyia edwardsi. The last seven species have not been previously recorded in this area. The highest abundance of species occurred between October and March. October was the month with the highest number of captured sand flies, one month before the peak in the summer rainfall. In October the highest number of Ny. intermedia, Ny. whitmani and Mg. migonei, were also collected, the three epidemiologically most important species. The high abundance of species with epidemiological importance for ACL transmission might explain the sporadic occurrence of the disease in the area.

Ecology and spatial distribution of sand fly species in low endemic areas for American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in the municipality of Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“…pessoai in forest areas in an environmentally protected region in the Brazilian Cerrado biome, and Peres‐Dias et al . (2016) observed the presence of Pi. fischeri in areas of the Atlantic Forest in Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro.…”