Table 1. Parameters identified from the literature and used to estimate vectorial capacity of Australian mosquito species for chikungunya virus.

		Species
Parameter		Aedes aegypti	Aedes albopictus	Aedes notoscriptus	Aedes vigilax
m	Density in relation to host(human biting rate per hour)	4 (Queensland Health, state government data)	Maximum 48 for Masig and Warraber Islands or minimum 3.6 for Thursday Island (Queensland Health, state government data)	4.8 (mean of Summer and Winter observations in Brisbane [28])	Minimum 8.2 [29] recorded in Townsville and maximum 550.1 recorded in Redcliffe [30]
a a	Host preference	0.75 [31] or 0.95 [32] c	0.20 c [33] or 0.96 c [34]	0.19 [35] or 0.50 [36]	0.14 [31] and [35]
	Length of gonotrophic cycle (days)	3 c [37, 38] and reviewed in [39]	3 c [40]	3 [41]	3 [42]
	Multiple meals	2.8 [43] c	Possible, but likely to be small d (value of 1 used for calculation)	No (value of 1 used for calculation)	No (value of 1 used for calculation)
p	Survival	0.885 [44]	0.801 c [40, 45]	0.780 [46]	0.760 [47, 48]
b	Transmission rate	0.64 [16]	0.60 [17]	0.20 [16]	0.76 [16]
n	EIP	10 days b [16, 17]

^a a is probability a vector feeds on a host in one day, and is calculated as the product of host preference, feeding frequency (1/length of gonotrophic cycle) and multiple meals [24, 43]

^b EIP designated at 10 days for all species to represent time of peak infectivity [17]

^c indicates parameter value obtained from studies conducted on mosquito populations from origins other than Australia

^d information regarding the number of bloodmeals comprising a replete meal is lacking for Ae. albopictus [40] and it is unlikely to be influential (when compared with Ae. aegypti) due to limited probability of resuming a bloodmeal on another human