Abstract: | SUMMARYThis study reports the fauna and frequency of sandflies in domestic
animal shelters, residences and other ecotopes in rural areas of the municipality
of Bandeirantes, Paraná State. Sandflies were collected twice in eight rural
villages by using Falcon traps from 8pm to 6am in 2008. In these localities 4,790
sandflies were collected, which were represented by ten sandfly species,
prevailing of Nyssomyia neivai and Nyssomyia
whitmani species. It was observed that animal shelters are the
domestic ecotopes where there is the greatest frequency of these insects. The
localities where the collections were made had the environmental characteristics
that allow the persistence of transmission of parasites from the American
tegumentary leishmaniasis. Although the fauna and the behavior of sandflies
species are similar in different localities, the method of controlling these
insects should be adjusted to the environmental characteristics of each one of the
most diverse endemic areas of American tegumentary leishmaniasis in the
municipalities of Paraná State. |