phlebotomus fever

[New Latin Phlebotomus, sand fly genus (from Late Latin phlebotomus, lancet , from Greek phlebotomos, opening a vein; see phlebotomy).]

An infectious but not contagious denguelike disease occurring in the Balkan Peninsula and other parts of southern Europe, caused by an arbovirus introduced by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi. Also called sandfly fever.