Table 3.

Predictions of the fitted models with the experimental parameters for different measures of suitability to sexual size dimorphism sorting methods. Performance (% males recovery) at different levels of purity (% males in the sorted sample)

Species/Strain	Batch	SDI	SHI	Performance
				Purity = 99.9	Purity = 99.5	Purity = 99.0
An. arabiensis Dongola	1	0.58	1.01	<0.01	0.04	0.23
	2	0.09	0.98	-	-	-
	3	0.09	1.02	<0.01	<0.01	-
	Total	0.24	1.00	<0.01	<0.01	-
Ae. albopictus Rimini	1	1.89	0.99	73.09	88.45	92.96
	2	2.35	0.96	95.12	98.78	99.45
	3	1.95	1.04	83.92	93.55	96.19
	Total	1.91	1.02	78.97	91.13	94.62
Ae. polynesiensis Aito (BC9)	1	2.87	0.96	99.41	99.89	99.96
	2	2.69	1.03	98.93	99.74	99.88
	3	3.00	0.92	99.78	99.97	99.99
	Total	2.29	0.97	91.41	97.25	98.55
Ae. aegypti GSS	1	2.00	1.02	80.28	91.51	94.74
	2	2.65	1.00	98.65	99.68	99.86
	3	2.54	0.87	95.17	99.03	99.61
	Total	1.94	0.81	33.75	74.51	86.43
Ae. aegypti Sri Lanka	1	1.35	0.92	5.54	31.16	48.47
	2	1.63	0.89	24.63	60.80	75.26
	3	1.67	0.93	37.38	67.23	78.52
	Total	1.51	0.90	15.66	48.85	64.99
Ae. aegypti WB2-BRA	1	2.35	0.92	95.69	99.15	99.67
	2	2.46	0.82	89.46	97.94	99.21
	3	2.40	0.89	89.61	97.23	98.69
	Total	1.96	0.89	63.59	86.67	92.77

Abbreviations: SDI, SHI, dimensionless parameters, characteristic of each batch