The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Africa, Europe and the Middle East: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic précis

Table 10 Larval site characteristics of the African DVS.

Species	Source	Light intensity		Salinity		Turbidity		Movement		Vegetation
		Helio-philic	Helio-phobic	High (brackish)	Low (fresh)	Clear	Polluted	Still or stagnant	Flowing	Higher plants, algae etc	No Veg
An. arabiensis	Summary	5	2	1	1	5	5	2	4	11	1
An. arabiensis	TAG	●			●	●	○	●		●	●
An. funestus	Summary	3	3		1	2		3		6	1
An. funestus	TAG	●	○	○	●	●		●	●	●	○
An. gambiae	Summary	4	1	1	1	4	4	5	3	5	4
An. gambiae	TAG	●			●	●	○	●		●	●
An. melas	Summary			5	2					4
An. melas	TAG	●	●	●	○	●	●	●		●
An. merus	Summary			5						2
An. merus	TAG	●	●	●	○	●	●	●		●
An. moucheti	Summary						1	2	2	2
An. moucheti	TAG	●	○		●	●		●	●	●
An. nili	Summary	1							1	1
An. nili	TAG	○	●		●	●		●	●	●

TAG: Bangs & Mbogo (unpub. obs., 2010), ● = typical, ○ = examples exist. Numbers indicate the number of studies that found larvae under each listed circumstance.