Comparison of BG-Lure and BG-Sweetscents attractants for field sampling of phlebotomine sand flies

•The experiments were carried out in an Amazonian town, with a great richness and abundance of sand fly species.•Cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic in the evaluated area with high rates of transmission.•The three most abundant sand fly species collected in this study present some degree of anthropophily.•Only for Ny. whitmani there was a slight indication of attractiveness to Bg-Lure.