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Table 5 Medians and interquartile ranges (brackets) for adult female mosquitoes marked and released, percent recaptured and number of recapture days

From: A global assembly of adult female mosquito mark-release-recapture data to inform the control of mosquito-borne pathogens

Genus

Number marked & released

% Recaptured†

Recapture days

Aedes (n = 287)

208 (79–716)

8 (2–18)

10 (4.7-19.9)

Anopheles (n = 291)

678 (182–2428)

3 (1–9.5)

8 (5–11)

Culex (n = 196)

4067 (1559–12000)

1 (0.3-4)

6 (3–10)

  1. †Kruskal-Wallis chi-squared = 117.3712, df = 2, p-value < 2.2e-16.