Evaluation of resting traps to examine the behaviour and ecology of mosquito vectors in an area of rapidly changing land use in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Table 1 Abundance of nine genera of resting mosquitoes (males and females combined) collected using CDC backpack aspiration (CDC), resting bucket (RB) and sticky resting bucket (SRB) methods over 8-week sampling period in 8 habitat types arising from deforestation

Trap	Genus	Inside house	Under house	Around house	Palm plantation	Rubber plantation	Forest edge	Forest ground level	Forest canopy
RB	Culex	×	636	163	52	10	13	94	×
	Aedes	×	8	20	0	14	18	20	×
	Tripteroides	×	1	1	1	0	2	1	×
	Armigeres	×	1	0	0	0	0	2	×
	Uranotaenia	×	0	1	1	2	0	1	×
	Lutzia	×	0	0	0	0	0	0	×
	Hodgesia	×	0	0	0	0	0	0	×
	Anopheles	×	0	0	0	0	0	0	×
	Toxorhynchites	×	0	0	0	0	0	0	×
	Unknown	×	0	2	1	0	1	1	×
SRB	Culex	×	31	69	16	5	9	33	12
	Aedes	×	8	6	10	33	67	33	14
	Tripteroides	×	7	1	0	2	1	3	2
	Armigeres	×	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
	Uranotaenia	×	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
	Lutzia	×	2	0	0	0	0	2	0
	Hodgesia	×	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
	Anopheles	×	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Toxorhynchites	×	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Unknown	×	3	0	1	0	1	1	1
CDC	Culex	63	336	79	5	12	9	19	×
	Aedes	3	22	48	9	31	58	61	×
	Tripteroides	0	2	3	0	1	2	8	×
	Armigeres	0	3	1	1	0	4	5	×
	Uranotaenia	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	×
	Lutzia	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	×
	Hodgesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	×
	Anopheles	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	×
	Toxorhynchites	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	×
	Unknown	1	1	1	0	3	0	0	×
Total		67	1064	395	97	116	186	287	31

ISSN: 1756-3305