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. 2011 Mar 4;84(3):489–496. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0654

Table 1.

Summary of mosquito collections from schools in Mérida during 2008 and 2009

Time period and species Females Males
No. collected Percentage of total females for period Range for individual schools Percentage of schools with females No. collected Percentage of total males for period Range for individual schools Percentage of schools with males
October 2008*
Aedes aegypti 217 32.6 1–32 100 322 28.1 1–39 100
Aedes taeniorhynchus 129 19.4 0–52 66.7 71 6.2 0–54 28.6
Aedes trivittatus 1 0.2 0–1 4.8 0 0 0 0
Culex interrogator 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Culex quinquefasciatus 318 47.8 0–62 90.4 751 65.6 0–212 90.4
December 2008*
Aedes aegypti 66 12.3 0–15 85.7 82 5.1 0–43 61.9
Aedes taeniorhynchus 6 1.1 0–3 14.3 0 0 0 0
Aedes trivittatus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Culex interrogator 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Culex quinquefasciatus 466 86.6 1–144 100 1,515 94.9 0–566 90.5
November to December 2009*
Aedes aegypti 185 12.0 0–39 87.5 303 12.2 0–136 95.8
Aedes taeniorhynchus 457 29.6 0–72 100 83 3.4 0–712 45.8
Aedes trivittatus 4 0.3 0–3 8.3 0 0 0 0
Culex interrogator 5 0.3 0–3 8.3 0 0 0 0
Culex quinquefasciatus 892 57.8 0–393 100 2,091 84.4 0–28 100
*

Numbers of schools sampled were 21 in October 2008, 21 in December 2008, and 24 in November and December 2009.