Determination of sand flies fauna in Shiraz district in 2007

Shiraz district is one of the important foci of urban and rural cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran and any precise study wasn’t carry out in relation to sand flies fauna in this district. The purpose of this study, investigation and determination of probable vectors of the urban and rural cutaneous leishmaniasis had been in this district. This study is a descriptive study. The sand flies were collected by sticky trap in June, July and September of 2007 in various local of Shiraz city and villages around of Shiraz city. The preyed sand flies were identified by Nadim & Javadian key. From 1322 collected sand flies, one sub genus from Sergentomyia genus (Grassomyia spp) and 10 species consist of 3 species of dependent on Phlebotomus genus (P. papatasi, P. tobbi, P. sergenti) and 7 species of dependent on Sergentomyia genus were identified. P. papatasi in 8 regions, P. sergenti in 2 regions and S. sintoni in 1 region from 11 investigated regions were determined as predominant species. P. papatasi was predominant in outskirt of Shiraz and it’s around villages that this is implicating the existence of P. papatasi as the probable vector of rural cutaneous leishmaniasis and P. sergenti was predominant in urbanite regions of Shiraz city that this is implicating the existence of P. sergenti as the probable vector of urban cutaneous leishmaniasis in these regions. In order to determine of principal vectors of urban and rural cutaneous leishmaniasis, this need to molecular surveys of vectors.