Table 3.

Variation of morphological proboscis phenotypes within molecular species

Species	Proboscis morphology type
	A1	B2	B3	C3	C4	C5	C6	C7	C8	C9	C10	C11	C12	C13	C14
An. farauti	6
An. farauti 4	408	85	188	2	66	15	1	4	16	25	11	63	2	10	4
An. hinesorum	2	1							2		1
An. koliensis	12	80	4		32			2	3	3	1	2	8
An. punctulatus		1	2
An. tessellatus	2

A1–C12 Phenotypic proboscis characteristics of the An. punctulatus group (see additional file for sketch) after Rozebloom and Knight [34] and Bryan [36]. A1 represents An. farauti and An. koliensis characteristics, B1–2 represents typically An. punctulatus features, and C phenotypes are represented within different species of the group. C13 represents a new phenotype (with a small pale spot behind labellum located in the middle of proboscis and uniform colouring of the wing sub-costa), C14 proboscis phenotypes do not fit into the other categories