title: [Phlebotomus of Vargem Grande, a focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the State of Rio de Janeiro].
abstract: In Vargem Grande, an endemic area of cutaneous leishmaniasis in State of Rio de Janeiro, where Lutzomyia intermedia had been found infected with Leishmania braziliensis, we performed a series of captures of sandflies to increase the knowledge on their behaviour. The following species were found among 8,671 sandflies collected: L. intermedia, L. migonei, L. longipalpis, L. lanei, L. fischeri, L. firmatoi, L. monticola, L. schreiberi, L. whitmani, L. pelloni, L. barrettoi e L. (Pi) sp. Inside houses and outdoors close to the houses, on human bait and in light traps, the predominant species was L. intermedia, followed by L. migonei, both being more numerous between 9 and 11 p.m. than from 6 to 8 p.m. In a plantation, L. migonei was predominant. In simultaneous captures on man and dog as baits, L. intermedia was more frequent on the former, L. migonei on the latter.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors; D007891:Leishmania / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007892:Leishmania braziliensis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007896:Leishmaniasis / Q000635:transmission*; D008297:Male; D011576:Psychodidae / Q000469:parasitology*
vernacular_title: Flebótomos de Vargem Grande, foco de leishmaniose tegumentar no Estado do Rio de Janeiro.