*amastigote - 2-4 μm
**transform from promastigote and propagate inside macrophage
**propagetes inside macrophage
**parasitized macrophage finally ruptures and let amasitgote out which eventually by sandfly
**transform to promastigote inside sandfly midgut
*simpler than ''Trypanosoma''
**Latin America
*Feed during night
==visceral leishmania==