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Table 1 Phlebotomus species captured using CDC light traps and sticky traps in peri-domestic and agricultural fields in Tahtay Adiyabo district, December 2012-June 2013

From: The influence of moonlight and lunar periodicity on the efficacy of CDC light trap in sampling Phlebotomus (Larroussius) orientalis Parrot, 1936 and other Phlebotomus sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Ethiopia

 

Sampling habitats

  

Sandfly species

Peri-domestic

Agricultural field

  
 

CDC traps

Sticky traps

CDC traps

Sticky traps

Total

Relative frequency (%)

Phlebotomus orientalis

5,943

1,175

5,546

569

13,233

97.78

P. bergeroti

72

9

11

9

101

0.75

P. rodhaini

9

8

41

8

66

0.49

P. duboscqi

7

1

3

0

11

0.08

P. papatasi

3

2

2

2

9

0.07

P. martini

0

0

3

0

3

0.02

P. lesleyae

11

21

9

57

98

0.72

P. heischi

2

2

5

3

12

0.09

Total

6,047

1,218

5,620

648

13,533

100

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