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Table 2 Abundance and diversity indices for sand flies collected from December 2014 to January 2016 in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil

From: Ecology, feeding and natural infection by Leishmania spp. of phlebotomine sand flies in an area of high incidence of American tegumentary leishmaniasis in the municipality of Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil

 

Area I(Rural)

Area II (Urban)

Total

%

Environment

Extradomiciliar

Peridomiciliar

Wild

  

Ecotope

Forest/ CDC trap

Forest/ Shannon trap

Chicken/ CDC trap

Forest 1

Forest 2

  

Species

n

n

n

n

n

  

Bi. flaviscutellata

42

5

4

3

3

57

2.26

Br .avellari

1

8

9

0.36

Br. brumpti

1

1

0.04

Br. pentacantha

2

1

3

0.12

Brumptomyia sp.

2

3

2

1

8

0.32

Ev. infraspinosa

1

1

1

3

0.12

Ev. andersoni

1

1

0.04

Ev. saulensis

81

66

27

10

3

187

7.43

Ev. walkeri

30

14

41

2

1

88

3.50

Lu. evangelistai

1

1

0.04

Lu. gomezi

1

1

0.04

Lu. sherlocki

6

7

4

2

2

21

0.83

Mi. micropyga

1

2

1

4

0.16

Mi. trinidadensis

1

2

3

0.12

Micropygomia (Sauromyia) sp.

1

1

2

0.08

Mg. migonei

1

1

1

3

0.12

Ny. antunesi

11

8

16

21

2

58

2.30

Ny. shawi

4

3

7

0.28

Ny. whitmani

11

9

2

10

7

39

1.55

Pa. abonnenci

1

1

0.04

Pa. aragoia

1

1

0.04

Pa. abunaensis

1

1

0.04

Pa. bigeniculata

4

4

0.16

Psathyromyia sp.

2

2

0.08

Pi. nevesi

41

13

7

11

3

75

2.98

Pi. serrana

8

2

10

0.40

Pr. calcarata

32

2

98

6

138

5.48

Pr. choti

3

4

35

2

1

45

1.79

Pressatia sp.

16

5

63

2

86

3.42

Ps. carrerai carrerai

55

29

13

2

99

3.93

Ps. llanosmartinsi

7

7

0.28

Ps. amazonensis

1

1

0.04

Ps. ayrozai

5

5

0.20

Ps. claustrei

1

6

7

0.28

Ps. davisi

17

48

24

1

90

3.58

Ps. hirsutus hirsutus

34

8

5

47

1.87

Sc. servulolimai

1

1

2

0.08

Sciopemyia sp.

4

1

2

4

11

0.44

Tr. auraensis

482

22

270

13

52

839

33.33

Tr. brachipyga

8

3

1

12

0.48

Trichophoromyia sp.

275

12

213

3

34

537

21.33

Tr. ubiquitalis

1

 

1

0.04

Total (n)

1170

279

855

92

121

2517

100.0

Diversity indices

 Richness (S)

32a

26a

17

20

  

 Shannon-Wiener’s (H′)

1.99b

2.11b

2.39b

1.85b

  

 Pielou’s (J’)

0.57

0.64

0.84

0.61

  

 Berger-Parker’s (D)

0.41

0.31

0.22

0.42

  
  1. aComparison for species richness (S) of sand flies collected in peri- and extra-domiciliary areas (Kruskal-Wallis test, H = 0,04, df = 1, P = 0.0531)
  2. bComparison for the diversity index (H′) between Area I and Area II (Kruskal-Wallis test, H = 1, df = 1, P = 0.317)