Survival Rate Variation of Anopheles Farauti (Diptera: Culicidae) between Neighboring Villages in Coastal Papua New Guinea

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Abstract
Landing catches of Anopheles sp. were made for 25 days simultaneously in 3 villages on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea at the end of the dry season in 1983, and a sample of the captured female Anopheles farauti was dissected for gonotrophic age determination. Survival rates per oviposition cycle were similar in 2 adjacent villages but were lower in the most southerly village. In all cases survival rate was age-dependent. The effect of the differing survival rates on potential malaria transmission is discussed.