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Table 2 Frequency and relative prevalence of adult mosquitoes collected at different indoor and outdoor resting places

From: Bionomic aspects of dengue vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus at domestic settings in urban, suburban and rural areas in Gampaha District, Western Province of Sri Lanka

Species and gender

Indoor

Outdoor

Total collected

Bathroom (n = 1236)

Bedroom (n = 1186)

Dining room (n = 1186)

Kitchen (n = 1230)

Living room (n = 1085)

Store room (n = 1184)

Total

Outside front (1236)

Outside back (n = 1236)

Vegetation (n = 1236)

Total

Ae. aegypti

 Female

26 (3.7%)

304 (43.1%)

78 (11.1%)

76 (10.8%)

173 (24.5%)

16 (2.3%)

673 (95.5%)

11 (1.6%)

7 (1.0%)

14 (2.0%)

32 (4.5%)

705 (38.4%)

 Male

3 (2.3%)

33 (25.4%)

5 (3.8%)

10 (7.7%)

34 (26.2%)

–

85 (65.4%)

14 (10.8%)

23 (17.7%)

8 (6.2%)

45 (34.6%)

130 (7.1%)

 Total

29 (3.5%)

337 (40.4%)

83 (9.9%)

86 (10.3%)

207 (24.8%)

16 (1.9%)

758 (90.8%)

25 (3.0%)

30 (3.6%)

22 (2.6%)

77 (9.2%)

835 (45.5%)

Ae. albopictus

 Female

10 (1.3%)

40 (5.1%)

14 (1.8%)

29 (3.7%)

47 (6.0%)

–

140 (18.0%)

114 (14.7%)

205 (26.4%)

318 (40.9%)

637 (82.0%)

777 (42.3%)

 Male

1 (0.5%)

2 (0.9%)

6 (2.7%)

–

8 (3.6%)

–

17 (7.7%)

35 (15.8%)

28 (12.6%)

142 (64.0%)

205 (92.3%)

222 (12.1%)

 Total

11 (1.1%)

42 (4.2%)

20 (2.0%)

29 (2.9%)

55 (5.5%)

–

157 (15.7%)

149 (14.9%)

233 (23.3%)

460 (46.0%)

842 (84.3%)

999 (54.5%)

Total collected

40 (2.2%)

379 (20.7%)

103 (5.6%)

115 (6.3%)

262 (14.3%)

16 (0.9%)

915 (49.9%)

174 (9.5%)

263 (14.3%)

482 (26.3%)

919 (50.1%)

1834 (100%)

  1. Values in parentheses refer to the frequencies of the number of adult mosquitoes collected for Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus (relative abundance based on total adult mosquitoes collected), n represents the number of resting places inspected