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Table 7 Phlebotomus orientalis young males (=un-rotated genitalia) caught over 12 months on sticky traps that were placed in peri-domestic and agricultural field

From: Species composition of phlebotomine sand flies and bionomics of Phlebotomus orientalis (Diptera: Psychodidae) in an endemic focus of visceral leishmaniasis in Tahtay Adiyabo district, Northern Ethiopia

Habitat type

No. collected (%)

Mean no. ± SE/sticky trap/month

Peri-domestic

187 (28.55)

15.58 ± 6.75a

Agricultural field

468 (71.45)

39.00 ± 4.98b

Total

655

 
  1. Mean values followed by different letters in the same column are significantly different (Mann Whitney U-test, P < 0.05).