Table 1.
Summary of mosquito species abundance using morphological identification from five sites in Madagascar.
| Anivorano Nord | Tsaramandroso | Bemokotra | Ankazobe | Ivato Aeroport | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CT | LT | CT | LT | CT | LT | LT | CT | LT | ||
| Aedeomyia furfurea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Aedeomyia madagascarica | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Aedes aegypti | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Aedes albocephalus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Aedes circumluteolus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Culex antennatus | 8 | 6 | 250 | 91 | 0 | 5 | 52 | 32 | 81 | 525 |
| Culex bitaeniorhynchus | 0 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Culex decens | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Culex giganteus | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Culex pipiens complex | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 44 |
| Culex poicilipes | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 26 |
| Culex tritaeniorhynchus | 0 | 0 | 25 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| Culex univittatus | 2 | 6 | 17 | 95 | 0 | 5 | 250 | 0 | 1 | 376 |
| Ficalbia circumtestacea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Lutzia tigripes | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mansonia uniformis | 5 | 10 | 2 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 |
| Uranotaenia sp. | 0 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| Total | 20 | 36 | 298 | 346 | 0 | 19 | 335 | 36 | 84 | 1174 |
Trapping was undertaken for two consecutive nights with CDC light traps (LT) and cattle (zebu-baited) (CT) traps. Trapping was undertaken between dusk and dawn and mosquitoes from CT traps were collected by mouth aspiration.