letter to the editor: sand fly fever with different names

With regard to a paper published in journal of arthropod-borne diseases; a case report entitled “sand fly fever with skin lesions: a case series from turkey” was published in 2016 (fatih temocin, et al. 2016). different names such as “phlebotomus fever”, ‘’mosquito fever’’, three-day fever or “papatasi fever” called the disease of sand fly fever which all are true except ‘’mosquito fever’’ (tavana 2001, 2015). mosquito is not a general name in english and is used just for culicidae. blackflies and biting midges are used for simuliidae and ceratopogonidae, respectively. therefore, is not related to sand fly fever (saidi et al. 1977, izri et al. 2008).