Description
Mosquito-borne diseases such as chikungunya, dengue, Usutu or West Nile, have come back to the forefront in both human and animal health. To prevent outbreaks, it is necessary to acquire a solid knowledge of the mosquito fauna in the considered area. Therefore, and since the mosquito fauna of Luxembourg was only partially known, we suggested the construction of the first comprehensive mosquito diversity and distribution database for the Grand Duchy as a base for an atlas. The MosquitoLUX project was implemented under the auspices of the Fondation faune-flore at the Scientific Research Centre of the National Museum of Natural History in Luxembourg. The Fondation faune-flore was the host institution and administrative manager of the project. * Schaffner F., Weigand A., Ries C. 2023. - Atlas and catalogue of the mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Luxembourg. Ferrantia 87, Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg, 117 p.: https://ps.mnhn.lu/ferrantia/publications/Ferrantia87.pdf Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894) was reported in 2022, sortly after the submission of the Atlas and catalogue of the mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Luxembourg.
Data Records
The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 36 records.
3 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 47e2b733-5273-4335-bf7e-3b9e475a4e36. National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Luxembourg.
Keywords
Checklist; Inventorythematic
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Geographic Coverage
Luxembourg
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [49.44, 5.702], North East [50.191, 6.52] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Family | Culicidae (Mosquitoes) |
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Project Data
The MosquitoLUX project was implemented under the auspices of the Fondation faune-flore at the Scientific Research Centre of the National Museum of Natural History in Luxembourg. The Fondation faune-flore was the host institution and administrative manager of the project. Duration: 2019 – 2022
| Title | MosquitoLUX |
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| Funding | Funding consortium : • 50%: National Museum of Natural History, Departments of Ecology and Zoology • 25%: Ministry of Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development • 25%: Directorate of Health |
| Study Area Description | Sampling was performed throughout three years (2019-2021) at sites selected in agriculture, nature or urban land cover categories within each of the 137 5x5 km grid squares that cover the territory of the Grand Duchy. Published or unpublished literature data from the period 1997 to 2018 was also consulted. |
| Design Description | To compile this checklist the authors collected and synthesised existing mosquito occurrence data, and implemented field surveys to acquire original field data. The latter were based on immature sampling and adult catches performed throughout three years (2019-2021) at sites selected in agriculture, nature or urban land cover categories within each of the 137 5x5 km grid squares that cover the territory of the Grand Duchy. Specimens were identified by morphology, but in the case of known cryptic species DNA-based methods were applied in addition. |
Bibliographic Citations
- Schaffner F., Weigand A., Ries C. 2023. - Atlas and catalogue of the mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Luxembourg. Ferrantia 87, Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg, 117 p. https://ps.mnhn.lu/ferrantia/publications/Ferrantia87.pdf
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| Alternative Identifiers | 47e2b733-5273-4335-bf7e-3b9e475a4e36 |
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| https://gbif.mnhn.lu/ipt/resource?r=mosquitoeslux2023 |