Preliminary Observations on the Female Behavior of the Indian Sandfly Vector, Phlebotomus argentipes (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Vijay Kumar; B. Krishnakumari; Shreekant Kesari; Krishna Kumari; Rajesh Kumar; Alok Ranjan; Pradeep Das

doi:10.1603/AN11089

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1 March 2012 Preliminary Observations on the Female Behavior of the Indian Sandfly Vector, Phlebotomus argentipes (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Vijay Kumar, B. Krishnakumari, Shreekant Kesari, Krishna Kumari, Rajesh Kumar, Alok Ranjan, Pradeep Das

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Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 105(2):201-205 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1603/AN11089

Abstract

Phlebotomus argentipes (Annandale and Brunetti) (Diptera: Psychodidae) is the phlebotomine sandfly vector responsible for the transmission of Leishmania donovani (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), a parasite capable of transmitting the communicable disease, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or kala-azar, in the Indian sub-continent. This paper presents the preliminary study on the laboratory-based behavioral responses of P. argentipes females to blood-feeding host and P. argentipes males or male extracts, for mating aggregation and blood feeding.

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Vijay Kumar, B. Krishnakumari, Shreekant Kesari, Krishna Kumari, Rajesh Kumar, Alok Ranjan, and Pradeep Das "Preliminary Observations on the Female Behavior of the Indian Sandfly Vector, Phlebotomus argentipes (Diptera: Psychodidae)," Annals of the Entomological Society of America 105(2), 201-205, (1 March 2012). https://doi.org/10.1603/AN11089

Received: 17 May 2011; Accepted: 1 October 2011; Published: 1 March 2012

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