Abstract
Sandflies are dipteran Psychodidae, being only females hematophagous the vectors of leishmaniasis, a serious zoonosis, also classified as an anthropozoonosis - a time that the etiological agents of the illness, the protozoa of genus Leishmania, also infect humans. In Brazil, at least seven species cause the disease, which is presented in two different clinical forms: mucocutaneous and vis…