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Table 2 Different Sand fly species captured by updraft suction traps baited with incandescent light, Green, Yellow and Red light-sticks and sugar-yeast mixture (SYM)

From: Attraction of Ethiopian phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) to light and sugar-yeast mixtures (CO2)

 

6 V incandescent light (14 TNs)

3 V sugar yeast mixture (11 TNs)

3 V green light-stick (16 TNs)

3 V yellow light-stick (18 TNs)

3 V red light-stick (16 TNs)

 

♂♂

♀♀

♂♂

♀♀

♂♂

♀♀

♂♂

♀♀

♂♂

♀♀

Phlebotomus spp.

12

3

0

8

4

3

0

6

0

5

Total (%) Phlebotomus

15 (0.6)

8 (0.4)

7 (0.8)

6 (0.8)

5 (0.9)

S. africana

665

610

44

68

258

256

372

169

193

99

S. bedfordi

3

28

0

6

0

3

0

0

0

11

S. adleri

3

15

3

19

0

0

0

7

3

0

S. squamipleuris

90

137

6

0

7

21

11

14

24

10

S. schwtezi

52

72

496

777

4

17

17

4

19

20

S. clydei

0

52

0

66

3

21

0

26

0

9

S. antennata

116

42

3

24

50

54

26

22

57

34

S. minuta (complex)

98

182

58

73

20

64

21

47

3

46

Total (%) Sergentomyia

2,165 (99.2)

1,643 (99.5)

778 (99.1)

736 (99.05)

528 (99.06)

Total

2,180

1,651

785

742

533

  1. TN = Trap Night.