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. 2017 Oct 23;10:510. doi: 10.1186/s13071-017-2481-1

Table 2.

Mosquito species diversity by country and habitat. Estimators of taxonomic diversity with values for Simpson’s Index of diversity, Shannon-Wiener’s diversity and Shannon-Wiener’s evenness for three habitats (farms, peri-urban and wetlands) in three countries (Sweden, the Netherlands and Italy)

Species Sweden The Netherlands Italy Total
Farms Peri-urban Wetlands Total Farms Peri-urban Wetlands Total Farms Peri-urban Wetlands Total
No. of specimens trapped 258 213 827 1298 591 1541 1164 3296 265 501 4831 5597 10,191
No. of samples 91 91 92 274 99 105 108 312 98 101 102 301 887
No. of species trapped 13 24 19 29 11 5 10 14 13 14 21 26 40
Simpson’s Index of Diversity 0.739 0.753 0.849 0.885 0.524 0.035 0.153 0.217 0.646 0.611 0.706 0.737 0.699
Shannon-Wiener’s diversity 1.667 2.062 2.153 2.425 0.857 0.096 0.395 0.482 1.502 1.259 1.439 1.62 1.803
Shannon-Wiener’s evenness 0.65 0.649 0.731 0.72 0.358 0.06 0.171 0.183 0.586 0.477 0.473 0.497 0.489