3100 insect were collected of Phlebotominae (Sand flies) from different areas of study and were distributed among 1409 females and 1718 males. During the field study, three different species of sand fly two belonging to the Phlebotomus genus (P. papatasi and P. sergenti) and one species of the Sergentomiya genus is S. sintoni, it was noted that more species prevalent is P. papatasi at rate (53.4%), followed by S. sentoni (28%) and P. sergenti (18.6%), respectively. There are very important differences between species superficial reliable classification, especially females was also observed.

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