Evaluation of the performance of new sticky pots for outdoor resting malaria vector surveillance in western Kenya

Parasites & Vectors

Table 2 Comparison of mosquito species diversity among different trapping methods, western Kenya

Place of collection	Trapping method	Species richness	Simpson’s diversity index, 1-D (95% CI)	Simpson’s evenness, E
Outdoors	Pit shelter	4	0.18 (0.17–0.20)^a	0.25
	Sticky pot	5	0.26 (0.23–0.29)^b	0.32
	Clay pot	3	0.27 (0.24–0.30)^b	0.37
	Light trap	5	0.70 (0.69–0.71)^d	0.87
	Exit trap	5	0.63 (0.62–0.64)^c	0.79
Indoors	Prokopack	4	0.53 (0.52–0.55)^e	0.71
Indoors	Light trap	5	0.68 (0.67–0.69)^f	0.85

Note: The different superscript letters indicate that mosquito species diversity varied significantly between trapping methods

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