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Table 1 Date of collection, mosquito species, sex, their respective niches, percentage (%) and number of mosquitoes collected from Mozambique

From: First confirmed occurrence of the yellow fever virus and dengue virus vector Aedes (Stegomyia) luteocephalus (Newstead, 1907) in Mozambique

Date of collection

Habitat

Species

Sex (n)

Subtotal (%)

1 April 2016

Rock-pool of clear water

Aedes (Stegomyia) luteocephalus

M (4)/F (12)

16 (17.39)

  

Aedes (Aedimorphus) vittatus

M (5)

5 (5.43)

8 April 2016

Tyre placed as “ovitraps” 

Anopheles (Celia) garnhani

M (1)

1 (1.09)

  

Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti

M (4)

4 (4.35)

  

Aedes (Aedimorphus) vittatus

M (3)/F (16)

19 (20.65)

  

Culex (Culiciomyia) nebulosus

M (10)/F (18)

28 (30.43)

  

Eretmapodites subcimplicipes

M (3)/F (15)

18 (19.57)

  

Toxorhynchites brevipalpis

F (1)

1 (1.09)

Total collected

   

92

  1. Abbreviations: F, female; M, male