Table 1.

Insemination rates in artificial-mating crosses between An. albitarsis from the laboratory colony, F1 mosquitoes of the original population (Massaranduba, Santa Catarina State, Brazil) and their reciprocal hybrids.

cross	Number of copulas	Number of inseminated females
♀ colony X ♂ colony	85	57 (67.1%)
♀ feral X ♂ colony	49	38 (77.6%)
♀ colony X ♂ feral	51	23 (45.1%)
♀ feral X ♂ feral	25	11 (44.0%)
♀ colony X ♂ hybrid A#	44	37 (84.1%)
♀ colony X ♂ hybrid B$	50	33 (66.0%)
♀ hybrid A X ♂ colony	29	19 (65.5%)
♀ hybrid B X ♂ colony	20	14 (70.0%)

^# hybrid A = F1 of ♀ feral X ♂ colony ^$ hybrid B = F1 of ♀ colony X ♂ feral