INFLUENCE OF PERI-DOMICILIAR ENVIRONMENTAL-CONDITIONS IN THE DISPERSION AND PROLIFERATION OF PHLEBOTOMINE SANDFLIES IN PARANA STATE, SOUTHERN BRAZIL

The results of phlebotomine collections with Falcao light traps are de scribed. The collections were made in an area of the Murure farm, in t he Terra Boa County, Parana State, south of Brazil. One trap tvas inst alled at the border of a modified primitive forest and seven in animal shelters (poultry sheds and pigsties) distant 10 to 600 m from this f orest. Of a total of 5,122 phlebotomine 4,046 (79%) were caught in an pigsty 10m from the border of the forest. The dominant species was Lut zomyia whitmani. Dispersion of phlebotomine was near to 600 m from the border of the forest and suggests that good environmental conditions for effective breeding in peridomiciliary areas in Murure farm were no t found, what explains the rare occurrence of tegumentary leishmaniasi s there.