Sand Flies as Vectors (With Diagram)

Sand flies are of great importance as the transmitters of various kinds of leishmaniasis, of a filtrable virus disease called three-day fever or more commonly sand-fly or papatasi fever and of Oroya fever. These are blood sucking flies and they belong to the genus Phlebotomus. These are small, moth like flies, rarely over 5 mm long. Their bodies and wings [...]