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Table 1 Phlebotomines distribution according to species, sex and the ecotopes where the traps were installed in Bonito municipality, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, from October 2005 to July 2006

From: Natural infection of phlebotomines (Diptera: Psychodidae) by Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis in an area of ecotourism in Central-Western Brazil

Trap

T1

T2

T3

T4

T5

T6

T7

T8

T9

Subtotal

Total

Species

Sex

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

MF

%

Bi. flaviscutellata

15

27

1

6

11

6

54

60

3.0

Br. avellari

8

10

4

3

12

13

25

1.3

Br. brumpti

13

21

3

9

1

2

1

1

18

33

51

2.6

Ev. corumbaensis

6

2

8

8

0.4

Ev. sallesi

11

2

7

3

3

4

2

2

1

8

27

35

1.8

Lu. longipalpis

6

3

6

1

107

28

472

92

69

8

10

2

732

146

46

12

3

5

1451

297

1748

88.4

Mi. quinquefer

1

1

1

1

2

0.1

Ny. whitmani

4

12

2

3

1

4

6

10

22

32

1.6

Pa. aragaoi

4

1

1

4

2

6

0.3

Pa. campograndensis

1

1

1

0.05

Pa. punctigeniculata

1

1

2

2

0.1

Pa. bigeniculata

1

2

3

5

1

6

0.3

Pi. christenseni

1

1

0.05

Total

35

83

19

54

108

32

476

97

69

8

10

2

747

167

47

13

4

6

1515

462

1977

100

  1. M: Male; F: Female. T1 and T2 - inside and on the edge of a relatively well preserved fragment of deciduous forest, in Vila Machado district, on the west side of Bonito, between two hotels. T3 - on a smallholding, in Vila América district, close to a pigpen. T4 - in a peridomicile in Vila América district, close to a hen house. T5 and T6 - in a peridomicile, close to a hen house, and in a house in the central district. T7 and T8 - in a peridomicile of a smallholding, near a pigpen and an animal shelter, and in a domicile in Vila Alvorada district, in the north of Bonito, close to the central district. T9 - in vestigial hillside savannah in Vila Donária district, in the south-west of Bonito, close to some hotels and to the central district. Bi.: Bichromomyia; Br.: Brumptomyia; Ev.: Evandromyia; Lu.: Lutzomyia; Mi.: Micropygomyia; Ny.: Nyssomyia; Pa.: Psathyromyia and Pi.: Pintomyia