[Comparative study of anthropophilia and phototropism among sandflies in a focus of leishmaniasis in the southeastern Iberian Peninsula].

Studies carried out in the Southeast of Spain on Sandflies, have shown the phenology, distribution and ecology of the various species and have permitted the identification of those populations related with endemic areas of Leishmaniasis. In this paper, a comparative study of phototropism and anthropophilia is made in order to identify the sandflies species involved in the transmission of Leishmaniasis and to increase our knowledge of their biology.