Assessing the Filariasis Causing Parasites in Adult Mosquitoes and the Vector Mosquito Larval Breeding in Selected Medical Officer of Health Areas in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka

Table 5

Percentage of microfilaria (mf) positivity in adult mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes species	No of mosquitoes dissected	No. of positive mosquitoes for mf	Percentage of mf positivity
Culex quinquefasciatus	3263	2	0.0613
Culex pipiens	1074	0	0
Culex gelidus	445	0	0
Culex fuscocephalus	189	0	0
Armigeres subalbatus	4449	3	0.0674
Mansonia uniformis	474	0	0
Mansonia annulifera	359	0	0
Aedes aegypti	658	0	0
Aedes albopictus	411	0	0

Samples collected from Kelaniya in September.