Figure 1.
Mosquito collection sites in PAC region.
San Antonio de Padua (SAP) in the municipality of Vigía del Fuerte, Antioquia Department; Zacarias (ZAC) in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca Department and Carbonera-Pindales (CAR-PIN) in San Andres de Tumaco, Nariño Department. Spotted line defines Pacific Region boundaries.
Figure 2.
Characteristic of sampling sites.
San Antionio de Padua locality (SAP): Larval habitats A) originated from rice cultivation. B) pond in the forest border. Zacarias (ZAC): C) ZAC settlement and nearby river used for material extraction. D) Larval habitat - fishpond. E) Carbonera (CAR): Larval habitat - drainage channel. F) Pindales (PIN): oil-palm agriculture.
Table 1.
Data on abundance, HBR, IR and EIR for the Anopheles species collected.
Figure 3.
Relative abundance of the predominant species in relation to rainfall.
Localities: San Antonio de Padua (SAP), Zacarias (ZAC), Carbonera-Pindales (CAR-PIN). Left axis: human biting rate (HBR) or number of mosquitoes/person/night, right axis: rainfall expressed in mm. The underlined months indicate collection periods and ★ periods when infected Anopheles were detected.
Figure 4.
Biting activity is expressed as percentage of bites per human per hour. A. An. darlingi in San Antonio de Padua (SAP), B. An. nuneztovari in Zacarias (ZAC), C. An. calderoni in Carbonera-Pindales (CAR-PIN), D. An. albimanus in Carbonera-Pindales (CAR-PIN).