Malaria Journal

Table 1 Number and density of mosquitoes collected indoor and outdoor by human landing collections and Mbita trap collections.

From: Is the Mbita trap a reliable tool for evaluating the density of anopheline vectors in the highlands of Madagascar?

	INDOOR				OUTDOOR				TOTAL
	Number of mosquitoes		Density of mosquitoes		Number of mosquitoes		Density of mosquitoes		Number of mosquitoes		Density of mosquitoes
	Man	Mbita	per man	per Mbita	Man	Mbita	per man	per Mbita	Man	Mbita	per man	per Mbita
	224 m-n	56 m-n	224 m-n	28 m-n	448 m-n	84 m-n	per man	per Mbita	Man	Mbita	per man	per Mbita
An. coustani	242	0	1.080	0	907	0	4.049	0	1149	0	2.565	0
An. squamosus	197	0	0.879	0	651	1	2.906	0.036	848	1	1.893	0.012
An. arabiensis	116	2	0.518	0.036	304	0	1.357	0	420	2	0.938	0.024
An. mascarensis	33	0	0.147	0	464	0	2.071	0	497	0	1.109	0
An. funestus	469	12	2.080	0.214	1032	31	4.665	1.107	1501	43	3.350	0.512
An. rufipes	7	0	0.031	0	14	0	0.063	0	21	0	0.047	0
An. maculipalpis	25	0	0.112	0	131	0	0.585	0	156	0	0.348	0
An. pharoensis	3	0	0.013	0.000	7	0	0.031	0	10	0	0.022	0
Cx. univitatus	15	0	0.067	0	67	2	0.299	0.071	82	2	0.183	0.024
Cx. antenatus	244	1	1.089	0.018	1002	9	4.473	0.321	1246	10	2.781	0.119
Cx. quinquefasciatus	125	5	0.558	0.089	191	20	0.853	0.714	316	25	0.705	0.298
Cx. decens	14	0	0.063	0	36	0	0.161	0	50	0	0.112	0
Cx. giganteus	40	0	0.179	0	152	0	0.679	0	192	0	0.429	0
Cx. poicilipes	3	0	0.013	0	28	1	0.125	0.036	31	1	0.069	0.012
Ae. tiptoni	3	0	0.013	0	11	0	0.049	0	14	0	0.031	0
Ae. fowleri	3	0	0.013	0	12	0	0.054	0	15	0	0.033	0
Ma. uniformis	69	0	0.308	0	264	1	1.179	0.036	333	1	0.743	0.012
TOTAL Anopheles	1092	14	4.861	0.250	3510	32	15.728	1.143	4602	46	10.272	0.548
TOTAL Culicinae	516	6	2.304	0.107	1763	33	7.871	1.179	2279	39	5.087	0.464
GRAND TOTAL	1608	20	7.165	0.357	5273	65	23.598	2.321	6881	85	15.359	1.012

Man = mosquitoes collected during the night by human landing catches Mbita = mosquitoes collected during the night by Mbita trap m-n = nomber of "men-nights"

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