Table 17 Adult feeding and resting behaviour of the European and Middle Eastern DVS.
Species | Feeding habit | Biting habit | Biting time | Pre-feeding resting habit | Post-feeding resting habit | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anthro-pophilic | Zoo-philic | Exo-phagic | Endo-phagic | Day | Dusk | Night | Dawn | Exo-philic | Endo-philic | Exo-philic | Endo-philic | |
An. atroparvus | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||
An. labranchiae | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | ||
An. messeae | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
An. sacharovi | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||
An. sergentii | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
An. superpictus | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||