Horizontal stratification of the sand fly fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a transitional vegetation between caatinga and tropical rain forest, state of Bahia, Brazil

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Artur Gomes Dias-lima²  Maria Lenise Silva Guedes¹  Italo A Sherlock² 

[1] ,Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz Laboratório de Parasitologia e EntomologiaSalvador BA ,Brazil

关键词: sand fly fauna;    horizontal stratification;    phytogeography;    leishmaniasis;    Lutzomyia longipalpis;    Lutzomyia whitmani;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02762003000600004

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

A study about the horizontal stratification of the sand fly fauna in two distinct ecosystems, caatinga area, endemic for visceral leishmaniasis, and the tropical rain forest area, endemic for cutaneous leishmaniasis, was performed in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Lutzomyia longipalpis was predominant in the caatinga, and following it came the species L. capixaba and L. oswaldoi. In the tropical rain forest other species were found, such as L. intermedia, L. migonei, L. whitmani, L. yuilli, L.fischeri, L. damascenoi, L. evandroi, L. monticola, and L. lenti. It was found that the geographical limits of the vector species of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis are clearly defined by the biological and phytogeographic characteristics.

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