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Table 12 Small larval sites of the African DVS.

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

Species

Source

Small natural water collections

Small man-made water collections

Artificial sites

  

Small streams

Seepage springs

Pools

Wells

Dips in the ground

Other

Overflow water

Irrigation ditches

Borrow pits

Wheel ruts

Hoof prints

Puddles near rice fields

Other

Empty cans, shells etc.

An. arabiensis

Summary

4

1

22

8

 

11

 

3

4

4

4

4

10

3

An. arabiensis

TAG

 

 

An. funestus

Summary

4

    

1

      

2

 

An. funestus

TAG

 

 

An. gambiae

Summary

1

 

10

 

2

3

  

2

1

2

2

6

1

An. gambiae

TAG

 

 

An. melas

Summary

  

3

 

1

3

    

1

  

1

An. melas

TAG

  

           

An. merus

Summary

  

3

  

3

        

An. merus

TAG

  

 

         

An. moucheti

Summary

              

An. moucheti

TAG

 

           

An. nili

Summary

              

An. nili

TAG

      

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