Table 3 Frequency of anopheline species caught by each trap type over 40 trapping nights, and their medical significance as potential vectors of human malaria (PHM, primary; SHM, secondary), simian malaria (SM) and the filarial nematodes Brugia malayi and Wuchereria bancrofti
From: Evaluation of electric nets as means to sample mosquito vectors host-seeking on humans and primates
Species | Medical importancea | HLC | MBT | HENET | MENET | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
An. balabacensis | B. malayi [60], W. bancrofti [60] | 162 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 175 |
An. barbumbrosus (s.l.) | Â | 6 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 18 |
An. donaldi | SHM [61], B. malayi [59] | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
An. indefinitus | Â | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
An. kochi | Â | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
An. latens | W. bancrofti [60] | 19 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 23 |
An. maculatus (s.l.) | PHM [61], W. bancrofti [61] | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
An. peditaeniatus (s.l.) | Â | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
An. subpictus (s.l.) | SHM [45] | 16 | 0 | 56 | 15 | 87 |
An. tessellatus (s.l.) | SHM [61], W. bancrofti [61] | 179 | 0 | 45 | 8 | 232 |
An. umbrosus (s.l.) | Â | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Unidentified anopheline | Â | 0 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 20 |
Total | Â | 403 | 1 | 146 | 34 | 584 |