Molecular Characterization of Culturable Aerobic Bacteria in the Midgut of Field-Caught Culex tritaeniorhynchus, Culex gelidus, and Mansonia annulifera Mosquitoes in the Gampaha District of Sri Lanka

Table 2

Diversity indices and total taxa of midgut bacterial isolates of Culex tritaeniorhynchus, Culex gelidus, and Mansonia annulifera.

Criteria	Mosquito species
	Cx. tritaeniorhynchus	Cx. gelidus	Ma. annulifera
Total taxa identified	8	9	6
Dominance	0.38	0.41	0.21
Simpson’s diversity index	0.86	0.87	0.80
Shannon’s diversity index	17.08	20.60	8.25
Evenness	5.80	7.00	2.80
Margalef’s diversity index	3.29	3.71	2.13
Menhinick’s diversity index	0.69	0.75	0.58