The resting sites and blood-meal sources of Anopheles minimus in Taiwan

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Number of mosquitoes collected using different collection methods in 20 visits (17 villages of 4 counties) Taiwan, 2005–2006

	CDC backpack aspirators¹				Blacklight traps¹
Mosquito species	Human dwelling			Larval habitat	Human dwelling (outdoor)	Larval habitat	Total
	Indoor²	Outdoor	Total
Anopheles species	0	2	2	30	181	225	438
An. minimus	0	1	1	23	69	64	157
An. maculatus	0	1	1	2	19	14	36
An. ludlowae	0	0	0	2	62	98	162
An. sinensis	0	0	0	2	31	49	82
An. tessellatus	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Culex species	73	135	208	66	386	187	847
Aedes and Ochlerotatus species	14	115	129	113	260	1,675	2,177
Armigeres species	87	229	316	5	187	5	513
Other species	0	0	0	1	8	2	11
Total	174	481	655	215	1,022	2,094	3,986

¹In each visit, two backpack aspirators were used to collect inside and outside of the houses for 1 hr and a section of a larval habitat for 1 hr, respectively. On the same day, one blacklight trap hung downward overnight to collect adults outside of the houses and the bank of the larval habitats, respectively. ²The house number surveyed was 195.

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