Anopheles subpictus Grassi: Observations on survivorship and population size using mark‐release‐recapture and dissection methods

Summary A mark‐release‐recapture experiment to estimate population survivorship and absolute size was performed with wild‐caught An. subpictus adults at the village of Khano‐Harni, Lahore District, Punjab Province, Pakistan during September 1978, the end of the monsoon rainy season, when temporal population abundance was maximized. Daily survival rate estimated from the recapture sequence of marked adults was low, males=0.192 and females=0.343. Survivorship for females estimated by several vertical age‐grading procedures ranged from 0.347 to 0.628. Both stage‐ and age‐specific life tables were calculated from vertical age‐grading data determined by the dilatation method. Female and male population size was estimated byBailey's modification of theLincoln Index and was found to average 4478.4 and 6106.8, respectively. The bionomics, survivorship and population size of An. subpictus in the Lahore are indicated that this species was probably not important in the transmission of human malaria.