Potential vectors of Leishmania spp. in an Atlantic Forest conservation unit in northeastern Brazil under anthropic pressure

Table 7 Vetorial capacity/competence and circulating parasite/detected DNA in the captured phlebotomines species

Species	Vectorial capacity/competence	Circulating parasite/detected DNA
Evandromyia walkeri	Unknown^a	L. braziliensis [30]
Psychodopygus wellcomei	Yes, for L. braziliensis [34]	L. braziliensis and L. infantum [34, 51]
Evandromyia evandroi	Unknown	L. infantum and L. lainsoni [42, 51]
Lutzomyia longipalpis	Yes, for L. infantum [34]	L. infantum, L. shawi, L. mexicana, L. lainsoni, L. amazonensis, L. guyanensis and L. braziliensis [34, 42, 44, 48, 51,52,53]
Evandromyia lenti	Unknown	L. infantum and L. braziliensis [43, 44, 49]
Psathyromyia brasiliensis	No evidence^b	None detected
Psathyromyia abonnenci	No evidence	None detected
Sciopemyia sordellii	Unknown	L. (Leishmania) sp. and L. infantum [47, 50, 51]
Micropygomyia schreiberi	No evidence	None detected
Nyssomyia whitmani	Yes, for L. braziliensis [34]	L. braziliensis, L. lainsoni, L. amazonensis, L. infantum and L. shawi [2, 34, 43, 44, 49, 51,52,53]
Evandromyia sallesi	Unknown	L. braziliensis complex [50]

^aUnknown refers to species that had parasites or DNA detected, but for which the relevance as well as the vectorial capacity and competence of the species in the natural transmission of the parasites is not known
^bNo evidence refers to species that had no DNA or parasites detected

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