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Table 1 Anopheline mosquitoes collected by human landing (HLC) and light trap collections (LTC) indoors and outdoors, number of blood-fed mosquitoes, and number of Anopheles gambiae s.l. identified to species in Mongola, Arena Blanca and Riaba, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea in 2009

From: Light traps fail to estimate reliable malaria mosquito biting rates on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea

 

Mongola

Arena Blanca

Riaba

 
 

HLC

LTC

HLC

LTC

HLC

LTC

Sum

Total number of Anophelines collected

7604

429

2905

629

1313

119

12999

Indoors

3172

391

1270

460

497

63

5853

Numbers blood fed (%)

531

106

258

66

128

24

1113

 

(16.7)

(27.1)

(20.3)

(14.3)

(25.8)

(38.1)

(19.0)

Outdoors

4432

38

1635

169

816

56

7146

Numbers blood fed (%)

707

6

346

19

197

16

1291

 

(16.0)

(15.8)

(21.2)

(11.2)

(24.1)

(28.6)

(18.1)

Total number of Anopheles gambiae s.l.

identified

1230

332

929

512

918

86

4007

An. gambiae s.s.

1194

330

73

19

422

16

2054

An. melas

4

2

844

486

493

70

1899

Identification failure*

32

0

12

7

3

0

54

  1. * Possible reasons for failure of molecular identification could be pipetting error or morphological misidentification, i.e. the specimen did not belong to the An. gambiae complex