Table 1.

The accuracy of NIRS for predicting the age and species of semi-field and wild An. arabiensis and An. gambiae s.s.

Condition	An. arabiensis				An. gambiae s.s.
	Age		Species ID		Age		Species ID
	No. scanned	%correct	No. scanned	%correct	No. scanned	%correct	No. scanned	%correct
Semi field	377	89	202	89*	327	78	201	91*
Wild	11	N/A**	11	N/A***	94	NA**	94	90

ID-Identification

No. -Number

*Accuracy for 1, 5, 7, 11 and 12 d An. arabiensis and 1, 3, 5, 9 and 10 d An. gambiae s.s. ages included in the previously developed model.

**Accuracy could only be verified on a proportion of the samples by parity dissections (see figure 3)

***Accuracy not verified since PCR was inconclusive on some samples and did not detect any An. arabiensis from the wild caught mosquitoes