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In the primary Asian visceral leishmaniasis vector, <jats:italic>Phlebotomus argentipes<\/jats:italic>, two <jats:italic>kdr<\/jats:italic> alleles in codon 1014 of the <jats:italic>Vgsc<\/jats:italic> are associated with insecticide resistance, potentially presenting challenges to vector control efforts in the Indian subcontinent. Here, we screened <jats:italic>Vgsc<\/jats:italic>-1014 alleles and blood meal origin in <jats:italic>P. argentipes<\/jats:italic> females collected between September 2013 and August 2015 in Bangladesh (Mymensingh), to understand how <jats:italic>Vgsc<\/jats:italic>-1014 alleles could impact feeding patterns. The sand fly collection took place in parallel with the vector control agency\u2019s biannual indoor residual spraying (IRS) programme. In this region, the wild-type leucine (<jats:italic>wt<\/jats:italic>-leucine) was the most common allele (66.7%), followed by the mutant serine (19.4%) and phenylalanine alleles (13.9%). Only 55 sand fly blood meals (13%) came from humans, with most of bovine origin (61%). However, sand flies that had fed on humans showed strongly contrasting <jats:italic>Vgsc<\/jats:italic>-1014 genotypic frequencies compared to those feeding on other blood sources. Whilst most (81%) <jats:italic>P. argentipes<\/jats:italic> with human blood possessed <jats:italic>kdr<\/jats:italic> genotypes with two mutant alleles, most (81%) sand flies feeding on other blood sources possessed genotypes with <jats:italic>wt<\/jats:italic>-leucine alleles (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). Significant spatial variation in <jats:italic>kdr<\/jats:italic> frequencies was detected, but there was no clear temporal trend nor effect of sampling year on any results, and no significant impact of recent IRS in any analyses. 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