Lutzomyia is a genus of phlebotomine sand flies consisting of nearly 400 species, at least 33 of which have medical importance as vectors of human disease...
19 KB (1,910 words) - 14:31, 23 May 2024
In the New World, leishmaniasis is spread by sand flies in the genus Lutzomyia, which commonly live in caves, where their main hosts are bats.[citation...
14 KB (1,181 words) - 17:59, 9 June 2024
the order Diptera and it is a common vector for Leishmania mexicana. Lutzomyia anthophora are holometabolous insects. They begin their life cycle as...
6 KB (632 words) - 21:37, 20 September 2023
Lutzomyia longipalpis (L. longipalpis) is a species complex of sandfly belonging to the family Psychodidae. This species is primarily present in Central...
25 KB (3,243 words) - 15:09, 14 August 2024
Lutzomyia adiketis is an extinct species of sandfly in the moth fly subfamily Phlebotominae. L. adiketis is a vector of the extinct Paleoleishmania neotropicum...
6 KB (617 words) - 05:22, 3 December 2023
Phlebotomus; in the Americas, the disease is spread by sandflies of the genus Lutzomyia. Belize and Honduras are notorious in the Caribbean for their sandfly...
8 KB (889 words) - 14:45, 13 August 2024
Lutzomyia shannoni is a species of fly in the subfamily Phlebotominae, the phlebotomine sand flies. It is native to the Americas from the southeastern...
8 KB (933 words) - 11:56, 4 April 2021
Fossil nematoceran in Dominican amber. Sandfly, Lutzomyia adiketis (Psychodidae), Early Miocene, c. 20 million years ago...
87 KB (9,478 words) - 00:46, 7 July 2024
sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus in the Old World, and of the genus Lutzomyia in the New World. At least 93 sandfly species are proven or probable vectors...
55 KB (6,163 words) - 19:39, 15 May 2024
generally spread through the bite of phlebotomine sandflies, Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia, and occurs most frequently in the tropics and sub-tropics of Africa,...
49 KB (4,939 words) - 20:13, 16 July 2024