Table 1.
Anopheline mosquitoes collected by human landing (HLC) and light trap collections (LTC) indoors and outdoors, number of blood-fed mosquitoes, and number of Anopheles gambiae s.l. identified to species in Mongola, Arena Blanca and Riaba, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea in 2009
| Mongola | Arena Blanca | Riaba | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HLC | LTC | HLC | LTC | HLC | LTC | Sum | |
| Total number of Anophelines collected | 7604 | 429 | 2905 | 629 | 1313 | 119 | 12999 |
| Indoors | 3172 | 391 | 1270 | 460 | 497 | 63 | 5853 |
| Numbers blood fed (%) | 531 | 106 | 258 | 66 | 128 | 24 | 1113 |
| (16.7) | (27.1) | (20.3) | (14.3) | (25.8) | (38.1) | (19.0) | |
| Outdoors | 4432 | 38 | 1635 | 169 | 816 | 56 | 7146 |
| Numbers blood fed (%) | 707 | 6 | 346 | 19 | 197 | 16 | 1291 |
| (16.0) | (15.8) | (21.2) | (11.2) | (24.1) | (28.6) | (18.1) | |
| Total number of Anopheles gambiae s.l. identified |
1230 | 332 | 929 | 512 | 918 | 86 | 4007 |
| An. gambiae s.s. | 1194 | 330 | 73 | 19 | 422 | 16 | 2054 |
| An. melas | 4 | 2 | 844 | 486 | 493 | 70 | 1899 |
| Identification failure* | 32 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 54 |
* Possible reasons for failure of molecular identification could be pipetting error or morphological misidentification, i.e. the specimen did not belong to the An. gambiae complex