Sandfly fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Parque do Sabiá complex, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Main Authors: Elisângela de Azevedo Silva Rodrigues, José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Jean Ezequiel Limongi, Márcia Beatriz Cardoso de Paula
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2011-10-01
• Series: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Subjects: Lutzomyia; Phlebotomine; Leishmaniasis; Ecology of vectors
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652011000500003&lng=en&tlng=en
• ISSN: 1678-9946

Between April 2003 and May 2009 phlebotomine sandflies were collected in Parque do Sabiá complex, Uberlândia municipality, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, using CDC and Shannon traps. The objective was to associate the sandfly species captured to the risk of the transmission of leishmaniasis in the municipality. The 126 captured specimens belonging to six species of phlebotomine, among which Lutzomyia (Psychodopygus) davisi (Root, 1934) predominated with 113 specimens (89.7%). The remaining captured species were Lutzomyia (Pintomyia) mamedei Oliveira, Afonso, Dias & Brazil, 1994 - five specimens (3.9%); Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) flaviscutellata (Mangabeira, 1942) - four specimens (3.2%); Lutzomyia lenti (Mangabeira, 1938) - two specimens (1.6%); Brumptomyia avellari (Costa Lima, 1932) - one specimen (0.8%); and Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) whitmani (Antunes & Coutinho, 1939) - one specimen (0.8%). The collection of species that may be involved in the transmission of Leishmania reveals the need for continuous entomological surveillance.