Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Vale do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, MG, Brasil.
Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2011 Mar-Apr;44(2):136-9. doi: 10.1590/s0037-86822011005000003. Epub 2011 Mar 18.
A study on the phlebotomine sandfly fauna was carried out in an endemic area for American tegumentary leishmaniasis in the municipality of Governador Valadares, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Captures were undertaken using HP light traps in four districts, on three nights per month, for one year (from January to December 2008). Correlations between climatic factors (temperature, relative air humidity and rainfall) and the numbers of sandflies collected was observed.
5,413 phlebotomine specimens were caught and were identified as belonging to 12 species. Of these specimens, 2,851 (52%) were females and 2,562 (48%) were males.
Lutzomyia intermedia predominated (29.9% of the species caught), thus suggesting that they were responsible for transmission of American tegumentary leishmaniasis, together with L. whitmani, which was also found in the area (4.3%). The presence of L. longipalpis (11.9%), the main vector for visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil, is an important finding, which makes rigorous entomological surveillance of the area necessary.
在巴西米纳斯吉拉斯州瓦拉达里斯市的一个地方性美洲皮肤利什曼病疫区进行了白蛉沙蝇区系研究。
2008 年 1 月至 12 月，使用 HP 光陷阱在四个区每月进行三天的捕获。观察了气候因素（温度、相对空气湿度和降雨量）与采集到的沙蝇数量之间的相关性。
捕获了 5413 只白蛉标本，鉴定为 12 种。其中，2851 只（52%）为雌性，2562 只（48%）为雄性。
中间白蛉（捕获物种的 29.9%）占优势，表明它们与在该地区发现的白蛉 whitmani（4.3%）一起负责传播美洲皮肤利什曼病。巴西内脏利什曼病的主要媒介长角白蛉（11.9%）的存在是一个重要的发现，这使得该地区必须进行严格的昆虫学监测。
