Leishmaniose tegumentar americana: flebotomíneos de área de transmissão no município de Teodoro Sampaio, região sudoeste do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Sandflies were captured in a secondary forest zone in the county of Teodoro Sampaio, Sao Paulo, during 12 months as from May 1994. Two houses located respectively at 240m and 850m from the semi-deciduous forest were selected. Night Center of Disease Control trap captures were performed fortnightly from twilight to dawn intradomiciliarly, in the edge and the interior of the forest and in the peridomicile of each one of the houses. Captures were realized as well in the peridomicile using Shannon traps during 6 hour for 24 captures and 4 quarter captures from twilight to dawn. The dominant specie was Lutzomyia intermedia (93.5%). A larger number of insects were captured in the traps located in the edge of the forest. In the peridomicile of both houses an equivalent number of insects were captured, although a clear predominance of males was observed in the more distant located house. In the interior of the house located near the forest a larger number of specimens predominantly female were captured. L. intermedia and L. whitmani peaks ocurred in the first hour and were characteristically more abundant in May, September and December when the mean temperature varied from 21 to 25.7OC and the pluviometric index as from 66.7 to 195.1mm.