Yahaghi Negin, Fatemi Mahboubeh, Hanafi-Bojd Ahmad Ali, Naghian Abdollah, Yaghoobi-Ershadi Mohammad Reza, Zahraei-Ramezani Alireza, Rassi Yavar, Soleimani Hassan, Dehghan Hossein, Veysi Arshad, Akbarzadeh Kamran, Akhavan Amir Ahmad
Department of Vector Biology and Control of Diseases, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
J Arthropod Borne Dis. 2022 Dec 31;16(4):278-287. doi: 10.18502/jad.v16i4.12189. eCollection 2022 Dec.
Leishmaniasis is one of the most important vector-borne and neglected tropical diseases in many parts of the world. The main objective of this study was to determine the biodiversity of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) in Khuzestan and Kermanshah Provinces of Iran.
Sampling was conducted in Khuzestan and Kermanshah Provinces using sticky paper traps and CDC light traps. The samples were then stored in 96% alcohol-containing vials, mounted, and identified. Afterward, the alpha diversity (using Simpson's, Shannon-Weiner's diversity, evenness, Maghalef's, Menhinick's, Hill and indices) and beta diversity indices (using Sorensen's and Jaccard's coefficients) were calculated.
A total of 4302 sand flies were caught and identified which comprised mostly of , and . It was found that among the four counties of Ahvaz, Shush, Shushtar and Dezful in Khuzestan Province, Shush had the lowest, and Shushtar, the highest amount of species diversity and evenness. In the four studied counties of Kermanshah Province, species diversity in Kermanshah County had the lowest amount and Sarpol-e-Zahab, the highest. The species richness in Kermanshah County was the lowest, while Qasr-e-Shirin County had the highest amount.
An overview of the biodiversity of phlebotomine sand flies in Kermanshah County in Kermanshah Province, and Shush County in Khuzestan Province, showed less stability in community structure of these vectors, which can be counted as an alarm for emerging dominant vectors among the studied counties and have the potential to increase the prevalence of leishmaniasis.
利什曼病是世界许多地区最重要的媒介传播和被忽视的热带疾病之一。本研究的主要目的是确定伊朗胡齐斯坦省和克尔曼沙阿省白蛉（双翅目：毛蠓科，白蛉亚科）的生物多样性。
在胡齐斯坦省和克尔曼沙阿省使用粘纸诱捕器和疾控中心灯光诱捕器进行采样。然后将样本储存在含96%酒精的小瓶中，制成标本并进行鉴定。之后，计算α多样性（使用辛普森指数、香农-威纳多样性指数、均匀度、马加莱夫指数、门希尼克指数、希尔指数）和β多样性指数（使用索伦森系数和贾卡德系数）。
共捕获并鉴定了4302只白蛉，主要包括[此处原文缺失具体种类信息]。结果发现，在胡齐斯坦省的阿瓦士、舒什、舒什塔尔和迪兹富勒四个县中，舒什的物种多样性和均匀度最低，舒什塔尔最高。在克尔曼沙阿省的四个研究县中，克尔曼沙阿县的物种多样性最低，萨尔波勒-扎哈卜最高。克尔曼沙阿县的物种丰富度最低，而加兹尔-希林县最高。
对克尔曼沙阿省克尔曼沙阿县和胡齐斯坦省舒什县白蛉生物多样性的概述表明，这些媒介的群落结构稳定性较低，这可被视为所研究县中新兴优势媒介的一个警示信号，并且有可能增加利什曼病的流行率。
