title: PHLEBOTOMINE FAUNA (DIPTERA: PSYCHODIDAE) IN AN AREA OF FISHING TOURISM IN CENTRAL-WESTERN BRAZIL.
abstract: The aim of this study was to identify behavioral aspects of the sandfly fauna of a fishing tourism area in the municipality of Bonito (MS). Monthly captures were undertaken from December 2009 to November 2010, using automatic CDC type light traps, from 18h00 to 06h00, in a forested area, a savannah area, peridomiciles and animal shelters near peridomiciliary areas. Nyssomyia whitmani was the most frequent out of a total of 6,699 specimens collected, belonging to 16 species, followed by Psathyromyia bigeniculata and Lutzomyia longipalpis, found in all the environments investigated, though in their greatest numbers in the animal shelters. Ny. whitmani exhibited its highest frequencies during the dry months, coincident with the fishing season, when the risk of transmission of cutaneous leishmaniasis for tourists and inhabitants increases. Noteworthy was the finding of two species naturally infected by flagellates: Ny. whitmani and Pa. bigeniculata. The local population and visiting tourists should be warned of the threat posed by leishmaniasis and the health authorities alerted to the need for adopting environmental sanitary measures, especially regarding such animal shelters as they seem to provide favorable conditions to the proliferation, maintenance and breeding opportunities of phlebotomines.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, brilhanteaf@usp.br, egalati@usp.br.
authors.forename: Andreia Fernandes
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Brilhante
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Laboratório de Parasitologia Humana, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil, mecdorval@gmail.com, rochahhc@gmail.com, geucristaldo@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Maria Elizabeth Moraes Cavalheiros
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Dorval
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, brilhanteaf@usp.br, egalati@usp.br.
authors.forename: Eunice Aparecida Bianchi
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Galati
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Laboratório de Parasitologia Humana, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil, mecdorval@gmail.com, rochahhc@gmail.com, geucristaldo@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Hilda Carlos
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: da Rocha
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Laboratório de Parasitologia Humana, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil, mecdorval@gmail.com, rochahhc@gmail.com, geucristaldo@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Geucira
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cristaldo
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Parasitologia Humana, Universidade Anhanguera, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil, vlbnunes@terra.com.br.
authors.forename: Vânia Lúcia Brandão
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Nunes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D005398:Fisheries; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000145:classification*; D016773:Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / Q000635:transmission; D010691:Phlebotomus / Q000145:classification*; D011156:Population Density; D012621:Seasons