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. 2018 Jun 1;11:331. doi: 10.1186/s13071-018-2824-6

Table 1.

Mosquito composition and diversity data from collections performed in wildlife reserves in southern Africa 2017. Lettering in the first column corresponds to the letter in the map insert in Fig. 1

Locality Latitude, Longitude Survey period NTT ± SDa NLT ± SDa Net vs light trap P-valueb % vectorsc CCMd CCMavd CCMNTd CCMLTd H
Mozambique
A Vilankulo 21°57.1'S, 35°18.8'E 21–28 January 784 ± 662 na na 93.7 2353 (13) [5] 2205 (5) [3] 2353 (13) [5] na 0.89
Botswana
B Moremi Game Reserve 19°07.1'S, 23°23.2'E 20–23 February 115 ± 93 163 ± 130 < 0.001 76.2 1339 (27) [8] 1020 (7) [4] 689 (15) [6] 650 (25) [8] 1.74
C Khwai Community Conservancy Area 19°07.3'S, 23°52.1'E 20–23 February 186 ± 128 399 ± 336 < 0.001 64.2 1356 (18) [8] 870 (4) [3] 559 (12) [4] 797 (16) [8] 1.79
Kruger National Park, South Africa
D Shingwedzi 23°06.7'S, 31°27.4'E 18–21 March 17 ± 9 33 ± 10 < 0.001 23.2 168 (20) [5] 39 (6) [3] 68 (15) [4] 100 (16) [5] 2.12
E Tshokwane 24°47.1'S, 31°51.3'E 24 March 116 ± 56 33 ± 18 < 0.001 68.4 414 (20) [6] 283 (7) [4] 348 (20) [6] 66 (7) [4] 1.71
F Skukuza 24°59.1'S, 31°34.8'E 22–23 March 17 ± 6 19 ± 8 < 0.001 74.3 109 (14) [4] 81 (5) [3] 52 (7) [3] 57 (11) [4] 1.80
G Lower Sabie 25°7.2'S, 31°55.6'E 25 March 46 ± 8 na na 76.9 91 (13) [4] 70 (8) [3] 91 (13) [4] na 1.76
Other South Africa
H Lapalala Nature Reserve 23°53.5'S, 28°16.0'E 7–10 April 30 ± 20 17 ± 11 < 0.001 56.2 297 (19) [5] 2,205 (5) [3] 213 (15) [5] 84 (13) [4] 1.99
I Tswalu Game Reserve 27°17.8'S, 22°28.1'E 14–17 February 2 ± 0 9 ± 9 0.01391 73.3 60 (6) [3] 44 (3) [2] 6 (2) [2] 54 (6) [3] 1.13
J Rooipoort Nature Reserve 28°56.2'S, 24°10.1'E 7–11 March 115 ± 58 29 ± 20 < 0.001 62.6 1000 (13) [4] 626 (9) [2] 689 (10) [3] 311 (11) [4] 1.40
K Kogelberg Nature Reserve 34°19.3'S, 18°58.1'E 9–11 February 66 ± 34 73 ± 36 < 0.001 96.7 695 (11) [4] 672 (3) [2] 331 (5) [2] 364 (9) [4] 0.24

Abbreviations: H, Shannon’s index, na, not available

a“NNT ± SD” and “NLT ± SD” denote the average number of mosquitoes captured each night in net and CDC light traps, respectively

bThe net vs light trap species composition significance test results analysis

c“% vectors” indicates the percentage proportion of mosquitoes that are known human disease vectors out of the total number of specimens

d“CCM” denotes community composition measures (number of mosquito specimen captured followed by the number of unique species collected in parenthesis followed by the number of unique genera collected in square brackets) for combined net and CDC light traps (CCM), for combined net and CDC light traps of known human disease vector species, for net trap collections only (CCMNT) and CDC-light trap collections only (CCMLT)