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. 2003 Oct 8;2:33. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-2-33

Table 1.

Repartition per bioclimatic domain of the species of the Anopheles gambiae complex in Madagascar.

Number of mosquitoes Results of PCR tests
Bioclimatic domains Number of localities Ind1 Out2 IR3 Larva4 LiTrap5 MTPS6 An. gambiae An. arabiensis An. merus Neg7 Total

Humid 13 387 137 28 0 91 0 598 (93%) 17 (3%) 0 28 (4%) 643
Subhumid 14 550 200 77 0 0 21 77 (9%) 762 (90%) 0 9 (1%) 848
Dry 4 82 57 79 0 0 0 74 (34%) 135 (62%) 1 (0.5%) 8 (4%) 218
Suharid 7 115 73 127 24 19 0 1 (0.3%) 278 (78%) 79 (22%) 0 358

Total 38 1134 467 311 24 110 21 750 (36.3%) 1192 (57.7%) 80 (3.9%) 45 (2.1%) 2067

1 Ind : indoor man biting mosquitoes 2 Out : outdoor man biting mosquitoes 3 IR : indoor resting mosquitoes 4 Larva : aquatic stages of mosquitoes 5 LiTrap : mosquitoes collected in Miniature CDC light trap 6MTPS : resting mosquitoes in Muirhead-Thomson's pit shelter 5Neg : PCR negative