Some Aspects of the Biology of Phlebotomine Sandfly Vectors

摘要: It is all too easy when embarking upon a description of recent advances in topic to forget or ignore the foundations which it was built. Many who study phlebotomine sandflies throughout world were inspired at some stage by enthusiasm late D.J. Lewis. His work, spanned 60 years, resulted outstanding contributions taxonomy group virtually every zoogeographical zone. Crosskey (24) records that one Lewis’s fellow “Leishmaniacs” once wrote him “the part you play and leishmaniasis so valuable, I shudder think what will happen finally hang up your microscope.” Unfortunately, time arrived end 1986, remains for others continue work he ably inspired.