Abundance and parity rate of Lutzomyia cruciata (Diptera:Psychodidae) in an endemic focus of localized cutaneous leishmaniasis in southern Mexico

Rebollar Téllez, Eduardo Alfonso y Reyes Villanueva, Filiberto y Fernández Salas, Ildefonso y Andrade Narvaez, Fernando J. (1996) Abundance and parity rate of Lutzomyia cruciata (Diptera:Psychodidae) in an endemic focus of localized cutaneous leishmaniasis in southern Mexico. Journal of medical entomology, 33 (4). pp. 683-685.

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Resumen

Human bait catches were carried out from 5 through 27 March 1994 in an endemic focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the state of Campeche, Mexico. Females of Lutzomyia cruciata (Coquillet) were dissected and 67% were parous. The number of total and parous females collected per day was analyzed by time series, but neither the gonotrophic cycle length nor survivorship could be estimated. However, a survival rate per oviposition cycle of 0.68 was estimated from the least square regression of parous on total females. Additional evidence for L. cruciata as a vector of human leishmaniasis is discussed.

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