Studies on cutaneous leishmaniasis in Khuzestan, Iran. Part II. The status of sandflies.

In these studies, more than 25,000 specimens were collected from different parts of Khuzestan Province. Sandflies were caught by aspirator from indoor, and with sticky traps from outdoor resting places. We found 10 species of Phlebotomus and 12 species of Sergentomyia in our studies. The sandfly season extends from March through late November. There are two peaks in the density curve of most species in plain and littoral areas, one in early June and the second in late September; in mountainous areas there is a peak in the density curve in September.