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

Table 11 Large larval sites of the African DVS.

Species	Source	Large natural water collections					Large man-made water collections
		Lagoons	Lakes	Marshes	Slow flowing rivers	Other	Borrow pits	Rice fields	Fish ponds	Irrigation channels	Other
An. arabiensis	Summary			1	2	3	2	16	1	2	2
An. arabiensis	TAG		●	●	○		●	●	●	●
An. funestus	Summary		1			2		5			1
An. funestus	TAG		●	●	●		○	●	●	●
An. gambiae	Summary			1		3		2			2
An. gambiae	TAG		●	●	○		●	●	●	●
An. melas	Summary			1		3
An. melas	TAG	●
An. merus	Summary			1		1
An. merus	TAG	●	○
An. moucheti	Summary				2				1
An. moucheti	TAG		●		●			●	●
An. nili	Summary				4
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.