An assessment of adult mosquito collection techniques for studying species abundance and diversity in Maferinyah, Guinea

Table 3 Diversity and relative abundance of mosquitoes per site and collection interval

Site	Collection Period	No. of mosquitoes (%)	No. of species	Simpsonʼs diversity index
Fandie	Night	4031 (38.0)	14	0.480
Fandie	Day	63 (0.6)	9	0.142
Maferinyah Centre I	Night	690 (6.5)	17	0.346
Maferinyah Centre I	Day	42 (0.4)	5	0.383
Senguelen	Night	5256 (49.5)	19	0.274
Senguelen	Day	528 (5)	10	0.220
Total		10,610	25

Notes: Percentages (%) show the proportion of mosquitoes collected in each site (and collection interval) in relation with the total number of mosquitoes. Simpson’s diversity index indicates a high diversity when it is close to 0 and low diversity when it is close to 1

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