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Table 2 Collection of Anopheles species according to capture methods in Conde, Paraíba State, Brazil, 2019

From: Outbreak of autochthonous cases of malaria in coastal regions of Northeast Brazil: the diversity and spatial distribution of species of Anopheles

Anopheles species

Mosquito capture methods

Total

CDC-based light trap

BG-Sentinel trap with dry ice

BG-Sentinel trap without dry ice

Castro insect capturer

Horst electric entomological aspirator

An. aquasalis

83

35

2

1b

2

123

An. minor

1

7

36

15

59

An. albitarsis

4

7

4

14

29

An. triannulatus

22

4

2

28

An. argyritarsis

5

8

2

3

18

An. peryassui

13

2

15

An. oswaldoi

2

3

5

An. braziliensis

2

1

3

An. sawyeri

2

1

3

Anopheles spp.a

11

20

6

3

40

Total

132

81

2

69

39

323

  1. All sampling methods of mosquito collection were fixed and used in each location demarcated as “point of collection, except for mosquito collection using mouth aspirator on the Shannon trap that was performed only in point P6 and P8 (see Figs. 3, 4)
  2. aIt was impossible to determine the species due to the inadequatey amount of DNA for analysis after extraction
  3. bMosquito captured in Shannon trap