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

Table 3 Abundance of sand flies collected in CDC light traps and monthly means for temperature, relative humidity and rainfall from December 2014 to January 2016 in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil

Collection period	Total no. of sand files collected	Percent of total	Temperature (°C)	Humidity (%)	Rainfall (mm)
December 2014	603	26.9	32.2	76.6	149.2
February 2015	102	4.6	32.1	70.4	292.6
May 2015	116	5.2	30.9	76.3	351.3
April 2015	110	4.9	29.7	75.4	231.7
May 2015	51	2.3	31.0	74.4	256.3
June 2015	31	1.4	29.2	65.3	31.0
July 2015	128	5.7	29.3	60.7	9.5
August 2015	26	1.2	28.3	64.7	45.2
September 2015	158	7.1	35.6	51.7	80.7
October 2015	248	11.1	32.3	57.3	96.0
November 2015	100	4.5	33.4	60.2	292.4
December 2015	412	18.4	32.6	65.9	171.8
January 2016	153	6.8	33.4	59.0	132.6
Total	2238^a	100	31.5^b	66.0^a	2140.3^a

Note: Equal letters indicate a non-significant correlation between the total number of sand flies collected and temperature, relative humidity and rainfall (P > 0.05); and different letters indicate a significant correlation (P < 0.05)

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