Table. 3 Evidence from Russell et al. [33] for increases in the absolute population densities of An. arabiensis concomitant with decreases in absolute densities of An. gambiae following roll-out of LLINs in 2006 [24]

Absolute density ± standard error (bpn)

An. gambiae s.l.

0.660 ± 0.006

0.575 ± 0.008

Relative proportions ± standard error (%)

An. gambiae s.s.

94.7 ± 0.05^a

0.5

An. arabiensis

5.3 ± 0.05^a

99.5

Absolute density, calculated using relative proportion (bpn)

An. gambiae s.s.

0.625

0.003

An. arabiensis

0.035

0.572