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Table 13 Larval habitats for the common anopheline species collected in Khe Ngang and Hang Chuon during 2004 - 2007.

From: Vectors and malaria transmission in deforested, rural communities in north-central Vietnam

 

Larval habitat used (%)

Species (Number of habitats located)

Rice fields

Ground pools

Riparian

Flooded grassland

An. vagus (42)

8 (19.1)

26 (61.9)

6 (14.3)

2 (4.8)

An. sinensis (40)

25 (62.5)

12 (30.0)

1 (2.5)

2 (5.0)

An. maculatus (31)

2 (6.4)

3 (9.7)

25 (80.6)

1 (3.2)

An. sawadwongporni (30)

0

0

29 (96.7)

1 (3.3)

An. harrisoni (23)

0

1 (4.3)

21 (91.3)

1 (4.3)

An. annularis (19)

7 (36.8)

8 (42.0)

1 (5.3)

3 (15.8)

An. aconitus (19)

6 (31.6)

8 (42.0)

3 (15.8)

2 (10.5)

An. philippinensis (15)

5 (33.3)

5 (33.3)

0

5 (33.3)

An. barbirostris (10)

2 (20.0)

2 (20.0)

6 (60.0)

0

An. peditaeniatus (7)

4 (57.1)

3 (42.9)

0

0

An. kochi (8)

7 (87.5)

1 (12.5)

0

0

An. nivipes (5)

2 (40.0)

1 (20.0)

0

2 (40.0)

An. dirus (1)

0

0

1 (100)

0

  1. Rice fields includes those flooded for cultivation and pools post-harvest, also included are associated pools used for regulating water in rice fields; ground pools includes buffalo wallows, borrow pits, natural depressions, fish ponds, and pools in drains; riparian habitat includes pools associated with rivers and streams, pools along the margins of rivers and streams, turbulence pits, pools in drying streams, rock pools; and flooded grassland includes water meadows inundated with water from irrigation runoff, flood water runoff, overflow from rivers and streams.