10500746-bad5-4bae-ad4b-0d0c4f302baa https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=efsa_2025_field_mosquitoes Francis Schaffner BioSys -EI Schaffner Francis, Steinbach, France Self-employed fschaffner.consult@gmail.com 0000-0001-9166-7617 Sandra Gewher Ecodevelopment S.A., Thessaloniki, Greece Igor Pajovic Center of Public Health PHO, Skopje, North Macedonia Nikolina Sokolovska Center of Public Health PHO, Skopje, North Macedonia Ognyan Mikov National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria Beniamino Caputo Università di Roma "Sapienza", Rome, Italy Riccardo Paolo Università di Bari, Valenziano, Italy

Thessaloniki GR

European Biological Control Laboratory team

Thessaloniki GR

Enkelejda Dikolli Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania Maria Assunta Cafiero Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata, Foggia, Italy Perparim Kadriaj Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania Francis Schaffner BioSys -EI Schaffner Francis, Steinbach, France Self-employed 0000-0001-9166-7617 2026-03-12 eng Within the context of VectorNet, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) publish regularly updated vector distribution maps, which are informed by a comprehensive review of the literature and data shared by experts, and also completed by targeted field studies. This study aimed at completing the distribution dataset for, in particular, Culex tritaeniorhynchus and other Culex species (such as Cs. modestus, Cx. theileri, Cx. perexiguus) in the Balkan countries and southern Italy. The obtained dataset includes all field data collected in June-October 2025 (657 data lines). Mosquito distribution presence absence seasonality abundance vector-borne diseases Culex GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 https://ipt.gbif.org/archive.do?r=efsa_2025_field_mosquitoes The Vectornet area covers the European Union and neighbouring countries 11.924 26.556 46.797 39.316 2025-06-16 2025-10-17 genus Mosquitoes annually Francis Schaffner BioSys -EI Schaffner Francis, Steinbach, France Self-employed fschaffner.consult@gmail.com 0000-0001-9166-7617 Step 1:pre-selection of locations suitable for the targeted Culex spp for field survey based on gap analysis; Step 2: performance of field surveys in June–October 2025 by the coordinator and local experts; Step 3: identification of collected specimens Field mosquito occurrence data collection in Balkan countries and southern Italy Original field data were collected by local teams according to standard procedures described in https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2903/sp.efsa.2018.EN-1435 Francis Schaffner 0000-0001-9166-7617 Within the context of VectorNet, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) publish regularly updated vector distribution maps, which are informed by a comprehensive review of the literature and data shared by experts, and also completed by targeted field studies. This study aimed at completing the distribution dataset for, in particular, Culex tritaeniorhynchus and other Culex species (such as Cs. modestus, Cx. theileri, Cx. perexiguus) in the Balkan countries and southern Italy. The obtained dataset includes all field data collected in June-October 2025 (657 data lines). OC/EFSA/BIOHAW/2023/05 EFSA Field mosquito occurrence data collection in Balkan countries and southern Italy Francis Schaffner 0000-0001-9166-7617 2026-03-04T09:24:05.913+00:00 dataset 10500746-bad5-4bae-ad4b-0d0c4f302baa/v1.4.xml