Breeding Habitat Distribution of Medically Important Mosquitoes in Kurunegala, Gampaha, Kegalle, and Kandy Districts of Sri Lanka and Potential Risk for Disease Transmission: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 2

The abundance of mosquito species in Kurunegala, Gampaha, Kegalle, and Kandy districts, Sri Lanka.

Genera	Species name	Kurunegala district		Gampaha district		Kegalle district		Kandy district
		n	Relative abundance (%)	n	Relative abundance (%)	n	Relative abundance (%)	n	Relative abundance (%)
Aedes	Ae. aegypti	42	2.7	160	14.88	243	19.19	86	10.3
	Ae. albopictus	183	11.78	276	26.38	176	13.9	306	36.65
Anopheles	An. subpictus	110	7.08	0	0	0	0	0	0
	An. vagus	8	0.51	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armigeres	Armigeres sp.	0	0	0	0	140	11.06	0	0
Culex	Cx. quinquefasciatus	236	15.19	215	20.34	235	18.56	113	13.53
	Cx. tritaeniorynchus	394	25.35	180	16.87	197	15.56	161	19.28
	Cx. gelidus	411	26.45	117	10.61	134	10.58	112	13.41
	Cx. whitmorei	101	6.5	35	2.48	24	1.9	12	1.44
	Cx. fuscocephala	12	0.77	38	2.78	0	0	0	0
	Cx. infula	0	0	0	0	78	6.16	0	0
	Cx bitaeniorynchus	0	0	18	0.79	0	0	0	0
Mansonia	Mansonia sp.	10	0.64	22	1.19	0	0	0	0
Tripteroides	Tripteroides sp.	47	3.02	47	3.68	21	1.66	45	5.39
Uranotaenia	Uranotaenia sp.	0	0	0	0	18	1.42	0	0
Total mosquito larvae collected		1554		1108		1266		835