Table 4.

Subgroup Analysis using ‘Africa’

	n	Hedge’s g	95% confidence interval	Τ2	I2
Studies not in Africa	20	0.1748	[− 0.3243, 0.6738]	1.0598	96.5%
Studies performed in Africa	38	− 1.4268	[− 2.8095, − 0.0440]	16.3656	98.2%

Subgroup analysis shows that alternative trapping methods performed in Africa capture significantly more Anopheles mosquitoes than HLC