Open AccessPreliminary Observations on the Female Behavior of the Indian Sandfly Vector, Phlebotomus argentipes (Diptera: Psychodidae)
Author(s) -
Vijay Kumar,
B. Krishnakumari,
Shreekant Kesari,
Krishna Kumari,
Rajesh Kumar,
Alok Ranjan,
Pradeep Das
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
annals of the entomological society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1938-2901
pISSN - 0013-8746
DOI - 10.1603/an11089
Subject(s) - psychodidae , sandfly , biology , leishmania donovani , visceral leishmaniasis , vector (molecular biology) , phlebotomus , leishmaniasis , kinetoplastida , zoology , leishmania , parasite hosting , protozoal disease , immunology , malaria , world wide web , computer science , gene , recombinant dna , biochemistry
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.