Lutzomyia longipalpis: an update on this sand fly vector

Lutzomyia longipalpis is the most important vector of Leishmania infantum, etiological agent visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in New World. It a permissive susceptible to infection with several species. One advantages that favors study this sand fly possibility colonization laboratory. For reason, researchers around world use species as model for different subjects including biology, insecticides testing, host-parasite interaction, physiology, genetics, proteomics, molecular and saliva among others. In 2003, we published our first review (Soares & Turco 2003) on covering aspects Lu. longipalpis. This current summarizes what has been between 2003-2020. During period, modern approaches were incorporated following development more advanced sensitive techniques assess fly.