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Table 1 Distribution by genus and species of adult mosquitoes collected on humans in the ten study areas of Dakar in September-October 2007; there were two outdoor catching points (80 person-nights collection) and one indoor catching point (40 person-nights collection) for each site.

From: Highly focused anopheline breeding sites and malaria transmission in Dakar

 

Outdoors

(2 catching points per study site)

Indoors

(1 catching point per study site)

% Indoors*

Total

% of total population

Anopheles gambiae s.l.

870

231

35%

1101

5.7%

Anopheles pharoensis

9

1

18%

10

0.05%

Culex quinquefasciatus

9393

5035

52%

14428

74.2%

Culex tritaeniorhynchus

2606

404

24%

3010

15.5%

Aedes aegypti

770

51

12%

821

4.2%

Aedes metallicus

1

0

0%

1

0.01%

Mansonia sp

62

18

37%

80

0.4%

Total

13711

5740

42%

19451

100%

  1. * Percentages of indoor bites were calculated using the number of outdoor bites averaged for one catching point.