410b750c-7f9c-4e60-887b-3c82c745477f https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=other_2025_field_mosquitoes Sandra Gewher Ecodevelopment S.A., Thessaloniki, Greece Nikolina Sokolovska Center of Public Health PHO, Skopje, North Macedonia Adolfo Ibanez-Justicia Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, Wageningen, Netherlands Anders Lindström Swedish Veterinary Agency, Uppsala, Sweden Kerem Oter Istanbul University, Türkyie Filiz Gunay Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkyie Bulent Alten Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkyie Francis Schaffner BioSys -EI Schaffner Francis, Steinbach, France fschaffner.consult@gmail.com 0000-0001-9166-7617 Francis Schaffner BioSys -EI Schaffner Francis, Steinbach, France 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, but also for other VectorNet priority species in other countries of Europe, the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa. The obtained dataset includes published data collated through a targeted literature review and data generated and shared by local teams (7,915 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=other_2025_field_mosquitoes The Vectornet area covers the European Union and neighbouring countries -9.032 46.406705 67.317663 26.10973 1967-01-01 2025-12-31 genus Mosquitoes annually Francis Schaffner BioSys -EI Schaffner Francis, Steinbach, France fschaffner.consult@gmail.com 0000-0001-9166-7617 Step 1: collection of existing occurrence data for the aimed Culex spp. in published literature (any year); Step 2: collection of unpublished existing data of Culex and other VectorNet priority species shared by local teams (over the seasons 2021–2025); Step 3: field sampling of original data at pre-selected locations suitable for the targeted Culex spp. in June–October 2025 Field mosquito occurrence data collection in Balkan countries and southern Italy Existing mosquito occurrence data were collected by contacting local experts from the Bakan countries and 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 OC/EFSA/BIOHAW/2023/05 various national and international funding agencies Francis Schaffner 0000-0001-9166-7617 2026-03-04T09:24:05.358+00:00 dataset 410b750c-7f9c-4e60-887b-3c82c745477f/v1.4.xml