A Comprehensive Analysis on Abundance, Distribution, and Bionomics of Potential Malaria Vectors in Mannar District of Sri Lanka

Table 5

Correlation between anopheline densities climate variables.

Lag period (Months)	Climatic variable
	Rainfall		Temperature		Humidity
	All Anopheline	An. subpictus	All Anopheline	An. subpictus	All Anopheline	An. subpictus
Hand collection
0	-0.178 (0.392)	-0.178 (0.392)	0.256 (0.215)	0.253 (0.221)	-0.265 (0.199)	-0.261 (0.206)
1	-0.167 (0.434)	-0.158 (0.459)	0.128 (0.549)	0.120 (0.575)	-0.071 (0.740)	-0.063 (0.767)
2	-0.105 (0.632)	-0.094 (0.667)	-0.067 (0.758)	-0.079 (0.719)	0.134 (0.540)	0.146 (0.506)
Window trap collection
0	0.018 (0.932)	-0.111 (0.598)	-0.167 (0.424)	-0.167 (0.426)	0.167 (0.424)	0.096 (0.647)
1	0.156 (0.468)	0.215 (0.313)	-0.249 (0.240)	-0.302 (0.151)	0.207 (0.333)	0.254 (0.230)
2	0.104 (0.637)	0.209 (0.337)	-0.182 (0.405)	-0.267 (0.218)	0.192 (0.379)	0.337 (0.116)
Cattle-baited trap collection
0	0.310 (0.132)	0.117 (0.576)	-0.278 (0.178)	-0.257 (0.215)	0.220 (0.290)	0.212 (0.309)
1	-0.034 (0.874)	-0.087 (0.686)	-0.292 (0.166)	-0.375 (0.071)	0.231 (0.277)	0.271 (0.199)
2	0.097 (0.659)	0.224 (0.303)	-0.246 (0.259)	-0.437 (0.037)	0.211 (0.334)	0.368 (0.084)
Cattle-baited net collection
0	0.087 (0.680)	-0.034 (0.871)	-0.259 (0.211)	-0.272 (0.188)	0.227 (0.274)	0.164 (0.433)
1	0.222 (0.297)	0.285 (0.177)	-0.234 (0.271)	-0.314 (0.135)	0.298 (0.158)	0.339 (0.106)
2	0.147 (0.504)	0.241 (0.269)	-0.091 (0.679)	-0.196 (0.370)	0.181 (0.408)	0.325 (0.130)
Larval survey
0	0.416 (0.039)	0.411 (0.041)	-0.368 (0.071)	-0.395 (0.051)	0.442 (0.027)	0.465 (0.019)
1	0.28 (0.177)	0.347 (0.097)	-0.283 (0.181)	-0.344 (0.100)	0.457 (0.025)	0.514 (0.010)
2	-0.033 (0.881)	0.059 (0.788)	-0.104 (0.636)	-0.176 (0.423)	0.171 (0.434)	0.238 (0.275)

P values in the parentheses.
Significant relationship.