| anthropophagy and aggregation behaviour of the sandfly phlebotomus argentipes in sri lanka. | the visceral leishmaniasis (vl) vector phlebotomus argentipes annandale & brunetti is widely distributed throughout the indian sub-continent and s.e. asia. the absence of vl in areas such as sri lanka has been attributed to the zoophilic nature of p.argentipes, since they were not recorded biting man. field studies on p.argentipes were undertaken in the central highlands of sri lanka, near kandy, in may 1988. male sandflies outnumbered females on cows by 19:1, and were regularly spaced at all de ... | 1990 | 2132972 |