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Flebótomos da área do reservatório da hidroelétrica de Itaipu, estado do Paraná, Brasil: Diptera, Psychodidae

Sand-flies from Itaipu Hydroelectric plant, State of Paraná, Brazil (Diptera, Psychodidae). During the years 1979 to 1986 captures were made, both inside and outside the houses and using human baits, in several localities of 6 municipalities along the Brazilian side of the reservoirs of the hydroelectric of Itaipu. Eight species of Lutzomyia were obtained, two of them L. intermedia and L. whitmani known as vectors of cutaneous leishmaniasis, found to be frequent in the area.


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