Dengue and yellow fever virus vectors: seasonal abundance, diversity and resting preferences in three Kenyan cities

Table 1 Seasonal adult mosquito abundance in Kilifi, Kisumu, and Nairobi between October 2014 and June 2016 using CO₂-baited BG-Sentinel traps

	Kilifi			Kisumu			Nairobi
Mosquito species	Long-rains	Short-rains	Dry season	Long-rains	Short-rains	Dry season	Long-rains	Short-rains	Dry season
Aedes aegypti ^a	2235	581	113	2577	414	522	1071	180	76
Aedes bromeliae ^b	6	5	0	0	5	0	13	0	0
Aedes metallicus ^b	1	3	0	10	0	0	0	0	0
Aedes tarsalis ^b	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aedes dentatus	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aedes mcintoshi	2	0	0	50	1	16	101	1	1
Aedes tricholabis	57	19	0	1	3	0	2295	18	6
Aedes hirsutus	23	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Aedes longipalpis	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aedes spp.	109	1	0	19	0	0	0	39	6
Eretmapodites chrysogaster ^b	5	6	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Mansonia africana	2	0	0	789	39	185	0	0	0
Mansonia uniformis	0	0	0	224	7	220	0	0	0
Mansonia spp.	0	0	0	37	0	0	0	0	0
Culex pipiens	55	4	2	126	1	4	44	5	48
Culex annuloris	0	2	0	3	0	0	33	2	14
Culex univittatus	2	1	0	140	4	0	12	0	3
Cx vansomereni	3	0	0	0	0	0	21	0	0
Culex rubinotus	0	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
Culex zombaensis	0	0	0	0	0	0	54	0	10
Culex tigripes	0	0	0	1	0	2	3	0	0
Culex poicilipes	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0
Culex ethiopicus	0	0	0	7	1	0	0	0	3
Culex bitaeniorhynchus	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	0
Culex spp.	7	2	0	23	0	0	0	2	2
Toxorhynchites brevipalpis	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Anopheles gambiae (s.l.)	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0
Anopheles coustani	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Total	2548	629	122	4021	477	949	3651	250	169

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