leishmania aethiopica leishmania aethiopica leishmania aethiopica is a leishmania species. leishmania aethiopica scientific classification domain: eukaryota phylum: euglenozoa class: kinetoplastea order: trypanosomatida genus: leishmania species: l. aethiopica binomial name leishmania aethiopicabray, ashford and bray, 1973 it is associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis also called "oriental sore". it comes under the old world group of leishmania species, along with l. major and l. tropica which are other agents causing oriental sore.