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Table 2 Feeding rates of phlebotomine females captured in February and March 2021 in the Bosque Rodrigues Alves–Jardim Zoobotânico da Amazônia in the comparative assays with the control and test membranes

From: Artificial blood-feeding of phlebotomines (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae): is it time to repurpose biological membranes in light of ethical concerns?

Trials

Control (chick skin)

Test (pig small intestine)

Nyssomyia antunesi

Bichromomyia flaviscutellata

Other species

n

N. antunesi

B. flaviscutellata

Trichophoromyia ubiquitalis

Pressatia choti

Other species

n

1

4/76 (5%)

0/0 (0%)

0/0 (0%)

76

1/107 (1%)

1/1 (100%)

0/0 (0%)

0/0 (0%)

0/2 (0%)

110

2

2/58 (3%)

1/2 (50%)

0/9 (0%)

69

1/74 (1%)

0/0 (0%)

0/4 (0%)

0/0 (0%)

0/6 (0%)

84

3

0/22 (0%)

1/5 (20%)

0/6 (0%)

33

0/25 (0%)

0/9 (0%)

0/1 (0%)

0/0 (0%)

0/6 (0%)

41

4

0/31 (0%)

0/2 (0%)

0/13 (0%)

46

0/32 (0%)

0/0 (0%)

1/4 (25%)

0/1 (0%)

0/10 (0%)

47

5

0/37 (0%)

0/5 (0%)

0/24 (0%)

66

1/60 (2%)

1/5 (20%)

0/2 (0%)

0/0 (0%)

0/6 (0%)

73

6

2/102 (2%)

0/2 (0%)

0/7 (0%)

111

3/68 (4%)

0/5 (0%)

0/1 (0%)

0/0 (0%)

0/5 (0%)

79

7

1/32 (3%)

0/6 (0%)

0/8 (0%)

46

0/25 (0%)

0/3 (0%)

0/3 (0%)

1/1 (100%)

0/9 (0%)

41