Entomological Exploration of Sand Flies in Human Communities Affected by Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis in El Hajeb Province, Morocco

Table 1

Specific richness, diversity, abundance, and sex ratio of the fauna captured in the six stations studied in the El Hajeb region in 2019.

Station/ecocharacteristics	Ain Taoujdate	Sidi Mbarek	Aït Oufella	Aït Rbaa	Aït Naaman	Aït Brahim
Environment	Periurban	Rural	Rural	Rural	Periurban	Rural
Altitude (m)	470	431	581	922	1150	704
Abundance	3023	1044	6833	2083	1407	200
Male	2227	837	6093	1542	931	85
Female	796	207	740	541	476	115
Sex ratio	2.8 : 0.36	4.04 : 0.25	8.23 : 0.12	2.85 : 0.35	1.95 : 0.52	0.73 : 1.35
Species richness	9	12	10	11	10	7
H′	0.596	1.173	0.611	0.894	1.751	1.539
Hmax	2.197	2.485	2.303	2.398	2.303	1.946
E	0.271	0.472	0.265	0.373	0.76	0.791
Biotopes	(1) House and henhouse	(1) Domestic	(1) Manure	(1) Domestic	(1) Hen house	(1) Solid waste
	(2) Cow and sheep pen	(2) Stables	(2) Pens for cows, horses, and sheep	(2) Sheep pen	(2) Pen for horses and sheep
	(3) Peridomestic	(3) Peridomestic	(3) Peridomestic rock	(3) Peridomestic	(3) Domestic perimeter
		(4) Rocks
Dominant species	(1) P. longicuspis	(1) P. longicuspis	(1) P. longicuspis	(1) P. longicuspis	(1) S. minuta	(1) P. papatasi
	(2) P. perniciosus	(2) P. sergenti	(2) P. sergenti	(2) P. perniciosus	(2) P. longicuspis	(2) P. sergenti
	(3) P. sergenti	(3) P. papatasi	(3) P. perniciosus	(3) P. sergenti	(3) P. sergenti	(3) P. bergeroti
		(4) S. minuta	(4) P. papatasi

H′: Shannon–Wiener diversity index; E: Evenns equitability index.