Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (2003) 98, 733-737

Artur Gomes Dias-Lima, Maria Lenise Silva Guedes and Italo A. Sherlock (2003)
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 98 (6), 733-737
Abstract: 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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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
surveys/sampling/distribution
environment - cropping system/rotation

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Lutzomyia longipalpis		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia shannoni		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia whitmani		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia intermedia		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia migonei		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia evandroi		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia fischeri		Brazil (NE)
	Lutzomyia lenti		Brazil (NE)