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

Table 13 Adult feeding and resting behaviour of the African DVS.

Species	Source	Feeding habit		Biting habit		Biting time				Pre-feeding resting habit		Post-feeding resting habit
		Anthro-pophilic	Zoo-philic	Exo-phagic	Endo-phagic	Day	Dusk	Night	Dawn	Exo-philic	Endo-philic	Exo-philic	Endo-philic
An. arabiensis	Summary	11	14	8	6		2	9		6	3	12	7
An. arabiensis	TAG	●	●	●	○		●	●	●	○	●	●	●
An. funestus	Summary	19	6	11	13			11	3	3	13	4	17
An. funestus	TAG	●	○	○	●		●	●	●	●	●	○	●
An. gambiae	Summary	12	4	10	10			13	3	3	4	5	5
An. gambiae	TAG	●	○	○	●		●	●	●	○	●	●	●
An. melas	Summary	5	3	3	3		1	3	1		1	3	1
An. melas	TAG	●	●	●	○		●	●	●	●	●	●	●
An. merus	Summary	3	2	3				1		2		4	1
An. merus	TAG	●	●	●	○		●	●	●	●	●	●	●
An. moucheti	Summary	5		2	5			1			2	1	3
An. moucheti	TAG	●	○	○	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●
An. nili	Summary	6		7	7			2			2	1	2
An. nili	TAG	●	●	●	●		●	●	○	●	●	●	●

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