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Research Ideas and Outcomes :
Data Paper (Biosciences)
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Lawrence J. Hribar
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Corresponding author: Lawrence J. Hribar (lhribar@keysmosquito.org)
Academic editor: Editorial Secretary
Received: 31 Aug 2021 | Accepted: 19 Oct 2021 | Published: 22 Oct 2021
© 2021 Lawrence J. Hribar
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
J. Hribar L (2021) Dataset for Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from Cross Key, Monroe County, Florida, USA. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e73768. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e73768
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Abstract
Background
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District deploys dry ice-baited light traps to monitor mosquito populations throughout the Florida Keys. Cross Key is an island directly north of Key Largo and via bridges it serves as a link between Key Largo and mainland Florida.
New information
This paper describes a data set compiled from trap collections on Cross Key, Florida, between September 23, 2002 and March 1, 2016.
Keywords
Diptera, Culicidae, seasonal abundance, Cross Key, mosquito trap
Introduction
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District uses dry ice-baited light traps to conduct adult mosquito surveillance (
General description
These data were collected to document the species composition, relative abundance, and seasonal distribution of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) on Cross Key.
Sampling methods
The data presented herein were collected between September 2002 and March 2016 on Cross Key, an island north of Key Largo and south of mainland Florida. Data collection was attempted weekly although due to storms, illness, and vacation some weeks were missed.
Battery-powered light traps (American Biophysics Company, Clarke, John Hock) were provisioned with approximately two pounds of dry ice and hung from the same tree limb once weekly. Traps were set in the late afternoon and retreived the following morning. Trap catch was taken to the laboratory, frozen, and all mosquitoes separated, identified with the aid of
Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle L.), black mangrove (Avicennia germinans L.), and buttonwood (Conocarpus erecta L.) comprise the majority of the flora at the site, with other typical marsh and hammock species present (
Geographic coverage
The island of Cross Key in Monroe County, Florida, United States.
25°11’17.51” and 25°11’17.51” Latitude; 80°23’28.48” and 80°23’28.48” Longitude.
Usage licence
Data resources
Excel 2013 spreadsheet containing number of male and female mosquitoes collected per species with dates of deployment and retrieval of traps.
| Column label | Column description |
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| Species | Species Identification |
| Male | Number of male specimens collected |
| Female | Number of female specimens collected |
| trap_place | Date trap deployed |
| trap_retri | Date trap retrieved |
Additional information
The size of the dataset is 68.37 KB. The file format is CSV. Data are available in file Suppl. material
Acknowledgements
I thank all biologists and technicians who assisted with data collection and specimen identifications.
References
- Keys to the adult females and fourth instar larvae of the mosquitoes of Florida (Diptera, Culicidae).Technical Bulletin of the Florida Mosquito Control Association1:1‑159.
- Mosquito fauna of Key Largo, Florida.Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association24:471‑477. https://doi.org/10.2987/5768.1
- Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) collections in the Florida Keys, Monroe County, Florida, USA.Studia Dipterologica9:679‑691.
- Expanding basic entomological knowledge by using mosquito surveillance bycatch.Annals of the Entomological Society of America113:439‑446. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saaa014
Supplementary material
Occurrences of mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) on Cross Key, Monroe County, Florida, USA.