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Phlebotomines (Diptera, Psychodidae) in the Speleological Province of the Ribeira Valley: 3. Serra district - area of hostels for tourists who visit the Parque Estadual do Alto Ribeira (PETAR), state of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Author(s):
Bianchi Galati, Eunice Aparecida [1] ; Marassa, Ana Maria [2, 3] ; Fonseca, Mauro Breviglieri [1] ; Goncalves-Andrade, Rute Maria [4] ; Consales, Cleide Aschenbrenner [5] ; Maria Bueno, Edna Fatima [1]
Total Authors: 6
Affiliation:
[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Fac Saude Publ, Dept Epidemiol, BR-01246904 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Adolfo Lutz Inst, Fac Saude Publ, BR-01246904 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[3] Adolfo Lutz Inst, Seccao Parasitoses Sistem, BR-01246904 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[4] Inst Butantan, Lab Imunoquim, BR-05508900 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[5] Inst Pasteur, BR-01311000 Sao Paulo - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 5
Document type: Journal article
Source: Revista Brasileira de Entomologia; v. 54, n. 4, p. 665-676, OCT-DEC 2010.
Web of Science Citations: 6
Abstract

Phlebotomines (Diptera, Psychodidae) in the Speleological Province of the Ribeira Valley: 3. Area of hostels for tourists who visit the Parque Estadual (10 Alto Ribeira (PE-FAR), state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The study characterizes some ecological aspects of the phlebotomine fauna in an endemic area of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) situated in the Serra district, Iporanga municipality where the hostels for tourists visiting the PETAR are located. Captures were undertaken on a smallholding and a small farm situated near the hostels, monthly between January/2001 and December/2003 with automatic light traps (ALT) in pigsty, henhouse and veranda of a domicile at the two sites, and in peridomieile of the small farm also with black/white Shannon traps. With the ALT a total of 87,224 phlebotomines representing 19 species and also two hybrids of Nyssomyia intermedia (Lutz \& Neiva) and Nyssomyia neivai (Pinto) and two anomalous specimens were captured. The standardized index species abundance was for Ny. intermedia = 1.0 and Ny. neivai = 0.935. The highest frequencies of the smallholding occurred in the pigsty, the Williams' mean/capture for Ny. intermedia being 63.7 specimens and for Ny. neivai 29.2, and on the small farm, in the hen-house, Ny. intermedia 402.6 and Ny. neivai 116.2. A total of 863 phlebotomines (Ny. intermedia: 75.4%; Nit neivai: 24.3%) were captured with black/white Shannon traps; females of both species being predominant in the white trap. The high frequencies of Ny. intermedia and Ny neivai, both implicated in CL transmission, indicate the areas presenting risk of the disease. (AU)