RESUMEN
It is known that a sugar meal is a prerequisite for the transmission of Leishmania by sandflies in the laboratory. Lutzomyia peruensis the proven vector of Leishmania peruviana, was caught by aspiration from crevices in rocks near Chaute in the Rimac Valley, Peru, cryopreserved and analysed for sugars using HPLC. The major sugars present are glucose and fructose as well as smaller amounts of sucrose, maltose, melibiose, turanose and a trisaccharide, probably raffinose. The results indicate that the major carbohydrate sugar meal of Lutzomyia peruensis is aphid honeydew. This is the first report of such behaviour in Neotropical sandflies.
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Áfidos/metabolismo , Carbohidratos/análisis , Insectos Vectores/análisis , Psychodidae/análisis , Animales , Cromatografía Líquida de Alta Presión , Femenino , Fructosa/análisis , Glucosa/análisis , Masculino , PerúRESUMEN
Lutzomyia furcata transmitted Leishmania chagasi to a hamster 10 days after being experimentally fed on an infected spleen. An individual female Psychodopygus carrerai carrerai that had fed on a hamster lesion caused by Leishmania mexicana amazonensis transmitted this parasite 6 days later to another hamster. Transmission electron microscopy of this fly's head revealed a small number of degenerate promastigotes in the foregut, but only a few were attached.