Research Article
Distribution and Bionomic of Sand Flies in Five Ecologically Different Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Foci in Morocco
Table 1
Species diversity, abundance, and relative frequency of sand flies caught in the five studied areas.
| | Species | Ait Chribou (Azilal) | Bouassem (Boulmane) | Ait Bousdouk (Essaouira) | Aichoune (Sefrou) | Azrou (Tinghir) | Total | | Abundance | Frequency | Abundance | Frequency | Abundance | Frequency | Abundance | Frequency | Abundance | Frequency | Abundance | Frequency | | M | F | (%) | M | F | (%) | M | F | (%) | M | F | (%) | M | F | (%) | M | F | % |
| | Ph. sergenti | 243 | 54 | 50 | 146 | 22 | 60.4 | 207 | 41 | 51.9 | 791 | 99 | 72 | 136 | 23 | 27.8 | 1523 | 239 | 55.8 | | Ph. perniciosus | 130 | 32 | 27.3 | 43 | 9 | 18.7 | 40 | 12 | 10.9 | 81 | 16 | 7.8 | 37 | 7 | 7.7 | 331 | 76 | 12.9 | | Ph. longicuspis | 48 | 7 | 9.3 | 28 | 3 | 11.2 | 107 | 13 | 25.2 | 92 | 13 | 8.5 | 66 | 11 | 13.5 | 341 | 47 | 12.3 | | Ph. papatasi | 17 | 3 | 3.4 | 6 | 1 | 2.5 | 20 | 3 | 4.8 | 57 | 10 | 5.4 | 228 | 33 | 45.7 | 328 | 50 | 12 | | Ph. ariasi | 18 | 2 | 3.4 | 9 | 1 | 3.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 1.9 | 37 | 4 | 1.3 | | Ph. alexandri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1.3 | 5 | 1 | 0.5 | 5 | 1 | 1.1 | 15 | 3 | 0.6 | | Ph. chabaudi | 9 | 1 | 1.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0.3 | | S. minuta | 8 | 7 | 2.5 | 1 | 5 | 2.2 | 5 | 11 | 3.4 | 10 | 42 | 4.2 | 2 | 4 | 1.1 | 26 | 69 | 3 | | S. fallax | 2 | 8 | 1.7 | 2 | 2 | 1.4 | 2 | 10 | 2.5 | 7 | 13 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 33 | 1.5 | | S. dreyfusi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1.2 | 1 | 6 | 0.2 | | S. antennata | 3 | 1 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0.1 |
| | Total | 478 | 115 | 100 | 235 | 43 | 100 | 386 | 91 | 100 | 1043 | 194 | 100 | 485 | 86 | 100 | 2627 | 529 | 100 |
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M: male and F: female.
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