Non-American triatomine occurrence data (Reduviidae: Triatominae)

Data Records

The data in this occurrence 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 396 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Cecarelli S, Vicente M E, Qin L, Zhou X, Wu D, Balsalobre A, Bruno E A, Barboza E, Valente R, Marti G A (2025). Non-American triatomine occurrence data (Reduviidae: Triatominae). Version 1.1. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE). Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.mincyt.gob.ar/resource?r=noamericantriatominae&v=1.1

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE). To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: afc62d53-02ae-4bf9-bebc-19255a3417b1.  Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Argentina.

Keywords

Africa Asia Oceania Linshcosteus Triatoma

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

The geographic coverage of the records includes countries and overseas territories on the continents of Africa, Asia, and Oceania

Taxonomic Coverage

Most records were determined at the species level

Temporal Coverage

Sampling Methods

Information source types and compilation of triatomine species data To build the dataset, data for each triatomine species were obtained through a detailed and exhaustive review of information. Non-specific temporal range limits were set to obtain the greatest possible amount of new data from as many countries as possible. Regarding the published information, several public bibliographic repositories were used online (BioOne, Google Scholar, PLoS, PubMed, Scielo, ScienceDirect, Wiley) and were reviewed using terms such as “Chagas disease”, “Triatominae” plus “Africa”, “Asia” and “Oceania” without language restriction. There was a large amount of data from China between 2016-2018 provided by colleagues (co-authors of this work). The geographic information was part of a public paper but the dataset was unpublished.

Method step description:

1. Data georeferencing process To rigorously associate each record to a specific location in the geographical space, data must have information expressed in geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude). If no geographic coordinates were available, the site name was used together with information on administrative divisions to attain an accurate location using Google Earth. Where only the geographic coordinates and the site name (locality) were available, the corresponding administrative divisions were completed using GeoLoc. In the case of the records having only information at state/province level, the geographic coordinates were not added. The datum (coordinate system and set of reference points used to locate places on Earth) used for all geographic records was WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984). The final dataset was built after data quality control. Description of the dataset fields We compiled all relevant and available information associated with each triatomine species and attached the data to each dataset field, including characteristics of the specimens collected and of the sampled sites. To better describe the fields (based on Darwin Core terms used to systematize the information, they were grouped into the following six categories: (1) identifiers (including fields used to identify each record, e.g. occurrence ID, institution code, language of the resource, associated references, etc.); (2) systematic (including fields used for systematic information, e.g. scientific name, scientific name authorship, taxon rank and taxon remarks); (3) geographical (including fields with information such as administrative divisions, coordinates, georreference sources, etc.); (4) temporal (including fields related to the event date such as year, month and day); (5) sampling (including fields related to the sampling process such as name(s) of specimen collector(s), sampled habitat, sampling protocol and effort, etc.); and (6) individual (fields related to the total number, sex and life stage of individuals sampled). The following subsections provide some details about some of the abovementioned fields requiring specific clarifications. Systematic fields When appropriate, the “taxonRemarks” field included notes and/or references about synonyms or formal transferals of the species described in the corresponding record. Temporal fields When a group of specimens’ information corresponded to a certain time period but with specific dates available, the data were split into different records. If it was not possible to split the data, each record included the original time interval information (in years, month or days) in the “eventDate” field (e.g. 2016/2018). Sampling fields The “habitat” field refers to the type of habitat where the triatomines were collected, and classified into three categories: domicile, peridomicile and sylvatic. When specific habitat information was aggregated, the habitat was expressed as a combination of two or three of those categories (e.g., domicile–peridomicile, domicile–sylvatic, peridomicile–sylvatic or domicile–peridomicile–sylvatic). For the “SamplingProtocols” field, the available information was classified into two major categories: (i) active search, when the searching involved specialized staff; and (iii) passive collection, when different types of traps (e.g., light traps) were used and/or data came from participative science projects (e.g., iNaturalist).

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