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BIOTA NEOTROPICA
Volume 11, Issue 1A, Pages 685-704Publisher
REVISTA BIOTA NEOTROPICA
DOI: 10.1590/S1676-06032011000500033
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Phlebotominae; biodiversity of the State of Sao Paulo; BIOTA/FAPESP Program; distribution; epidemiology; leishmaniasis; vectors
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Phlebotomine sand flies are medically important insects, responsible for the transmission of Leishmania parasites between humans and non-human animal reservoirs, which are found throughout Sao Paulo State, Brazil. The 69 recorded species of phlebotomine sand flies from Sao Paulo State, including 7 species reported here for the first time to occur in this region, are organized in a checklist using the phylogenetic classification of Galati (2003). Our checklist incorporates and updates those previously published by Barretto (1947) and Martins et al. (1978), and includes records for 33 additional phlebotomine species taken from the literature published since and our examination of specimens held in entomological museum collections. For each sand fly species, the geographical distribution by municipality is also given, together with comments on the distribution of the six vectors of cutaneous leishmaniasis, as well as Lutzomyia longipalpis, the main vector of visceral leishmaniasis.
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