Table 6. Blood meal sources (hosts) of blood-fed mosquitoes.
| Mosquito | Hosts | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Homo sapiens | Bos taurus / indicus | Capra hircus | Ovis aries | Equus asinus | Canis lupus * | Felis spp. | Eidolon helvum | Total |
| Culex | antennatus | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| decens | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| poicilipes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| quinquefasciatus | 67 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 84 | |
| tritaeniorhynchus | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| univittatus | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 23 | |
| Aedes | vexans | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| aegypti | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Anopheles | pharoensis | 1 | 57 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 |
| gambiae | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| NI | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mansonia | uniformis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Total | 103 | 66 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 196 | |
NI = (species) not identified
* = including subspecies of Canis lupus such as C.l. familiaris