Short report: Distribution and feeding preference of the sand flies Phlebotomus sergenti and P-papatasi in a cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in Sanliurfa, Turkey

Abstract

Sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) and rodents were collected in the endemic focus of urban cutaneous leishmaniasis in Sanliurfa, Turkey. Phlebotomus sergenti and P. papatasi represented 99% of the sand fly population.

These flies were trapped in