A quantitative survey of anophelines in six villages of Kheda District, Gujarat.

ABSTRACT

Sampling of anophelines from six villages of Kheda district, Gujarat was done using four different methods viz. indoor resting, outdoor resting, bovine bait trap and immature collections. A total of 113,487 specimens representing 17 species were collected. An. subpictus (66.51 per cent) was most abundant species followed by An. culicifacies (14.12 per cent) and An. tessellatus (5.24 per cent). Bovine bait collections were found most productive yielding maximum species and highest number of anophelines per unit of collection efforts. Indoor resting collections yielded poorest diversity and greater number of specimens per unit of collection effort than outdoor resting collections. Maximum diversity was observed in outdoor collections. Most of the species exhibited unimodal prevalence.