Mosquito community composition in South Africa and some neighboring countries

Cornel, Anthony J.; Lee, Yoosook; Almeida, António Paulo Gouveia; Johnson, Todd; Mouatcho, Joel; Venter, Marietjie; de Jager, Christiaan; Braack, Leo

doi:10.1186/s13071-018-2824-6

Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 Mosquito composition and diversity data from collections performed in wildlife reserves in southern Africa 2017. Lettering in the first column corresponds to the letter in the map insert in Fig. 1

From: Mosquito community composition in South Africa and some neighboring countries

	Locality	Latitude, Longitude	Survey period	N_TT ± SD^a	N_LT ± SD^a	Net vs light trap P-value^b	% vectors^c	CCM^d	CCM_av^d	CCM_NT^d	CCM_LT^d	H
	Mozambique
A	Vilankulo	21°57.1'S, 35°18.8'E	21–28 January	784 ± 662	na	na	93.7	2353 (13) [5]	2205 (5) [3]	2353 (13) [5]	na	0.89
	Botswana
B	Moremi Game Reserve	19°07.1'S, 23°23.2'E	20–23 February	115 ± 93	163 ± 130	< 0.001	76.2	1339 (27) [8]	1020 (7) [4]	689 (15) [6]	650 (25) [8]	1.74
C	Khwai Community Conservancy Area	19°07.3'S, 23°52.1'E	20–23 February	186 ± 128	399 ± 336	< 0.001	64.2	1356 (18) [8]	870 (4) [3]	559 (12) [4]	797 (16) [8]	1.79
	Kruger National Park, South Africa
D	Shingwedzi	23°06.7'S, 31°27.4'E	18–21 March	17 ± 9	33 ± 10	< 0.001	23.2	168 (20) [5]	39 (6) [3]	68 (15) [4]	100 (16) [5]	2.12
E	Tshokwane	24°47.1'S, 31°51.3'E	24 March	116 ± 56	33 ± 18	< 0.001	68.4	414 (20) [6]	283 (7) [4]	348 (20) [6]	66 (7) [4]	1.71
F	Skukuza	24°59.1'S, 31°34.8'E	22–23 March	17 ± 6	19 ± 8	< 0.001	74.3	109 (14) [4]	81 (5) [3]	52 (7) [3]	57 (11) [4]	1.80
G	Lower Sabie	25°7.2'S, 31°55.6'E	25 March	46 ± 8	na	na	76.9	91 (13) [4]	70 (8) [3]	91 (13) [4]	na	1.76
	Other South Africa
H	Lapalala Nature Reserve	23°53.5'S, 28°16.0'E	7–10 April	30 ± 20	17 ± 11	< 0.001	56.2	297 (19) [5]	2,205 (5) [3]	213 (15) [5]	84 (13) [4]	1.99
I	Tswalu Game Reserve	27°17.8'S, 22°28.1'E	14–17 February	2 ± 0	9 ± 9	0.01391	73.3	60 (6) [3]	44 (3) [2]	6 (2) [2]	54 (6) [3]	1.13
J	Rooipoort Nature Reserve	28°56.2'S, 24°10.1'E	7–11 March	115 ± 58	29 ± 20	< 0.001	62.6	1000 (13) [4]	626 (9) [2]	689 (10) [3]	311 (11) [4]	1.40
K	Kogelberg Nature Reserve	34°19.3'S, 18°58.1'E	9–11 February	66 ± 34	73 ± 36	< 0.001	96.7	695 (11) [4]	672 (3) [2]	331 (5) [2]	364 (9) [4]	0.24

Abbreviations: H, Shannon’s index, na, not available
^a“N_NT ± SD” and “N_LT ± SD” denote the average number of mosquitoes captured each night in net and CDC light traps, respectively
^bThe net vs light trap species composition significance test results analysis
^c“% vectors” indicates the percentage proportion of mosquitoes that are known human disease vectors out of the total number of specimens
^d“CCM” denotes community composition measures (number of mosquito specimen captured followed by the number of unique species collected in parenthesis followed by the number of unique genera collected in square brackets) for combined net and CDC light traps (CCM), for combined net and CDC light traps of known human disease vector species, for net trap collections only (CCM_NT) and CDC-light trap collections only (CCM_LT)

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