Table 2.
Natural promastigote infection in sand flies collected from rodent burrows, Bahraman rural district, Rafsanjan County, Kerman Province, Iran, summer 2006
| Site | Species | No. of sandflies dissected | Age group | No. of sandflies with promastigotes | % infected | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | P | ? | T | G | O | H | ||||
| Outdoors | P. papatasi | 165 | 13 | 141 | 11 | 21 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 12.7 |
| S. clydie | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| S. baghdadis | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| S. sintoni | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Indoors | P. papatasi | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
T, total; G, gut; O, oesophagus; H, head; P, parous; N, nuliparous;? age not known*
*
Some females that oviposited all of their eggs had accessory glands devoid of identifiable granules so recognizing parous sand flies from nuliparous ones was impossible.