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Table 1 Species composition of emerged adult Aedes spp. collected in the rural, suburban and urban areas of southeastern Côte d’Ivoire between January 2013 and April 2014

From: Oviposition ecology and species composition of Aedes spp. and Aedes aegypti dynamics in variously urbanized settings in arbovirus foci in southeastern Côte d’Ivoire

Subgenus Species Rural Suburban Urban
Female Male Total % MO ± SE Female Male Total % MO ± SE Female Male Total % MO ± SE
Aedes (Stegomyia) Aedes aegypti 913 841 1754 63.3a 0.57 ± 0.05 1124 1035 2159 85.5a 1.20 ± 0.09 1521 1577 3098 100 1.97 ± 0.10
Aedes africanus 137 139 276 9.4b 0.08 ± 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aedes dendrophilus 122 139 261 8.0b 0.07 ± 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aedes metallicus 22 14 36 1.3c 0.01 ± 0.01 20 12 32 1.2c 0.01 ± 0.01 0 0 0 0 0
Aedes usambara 20 12 32 0.5c 0.01 ± 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aedes fraseri 6 11 17 0.3c 0.01 ± 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aedes luteocephalus 8 3 11 0.3c 0.00 ± 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aedes (Aedimorphus) Aedes vittatus 0 0 0 0 0 130 119 249 6.5b 0.09 ± 0.02 0 0 0 0 0
Aedes (Diceromyia) Aedes furcifer 20 14 34 0.7c 0.01 ± 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total Abundance 1248 1173 2421 100 0.89 ± 0.06 1274 1166 2440 100 1.44 ± 0.09 1521 1577 3098 100 1.97 ± 0.10
Richness (no. of spp.) 8 3 1
  1. Letters indicate the results of the Proportion-test. Groups that do not share the same letter for the same study area are significantly different (P < 0.05)
  2. Abbreviations: MO, mean number per ovitrap; SE, standard error of the mean number per ovitrap
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