🌦️ main predictors of presence were meteorological factors (temp, atmo pressure, rainfall)

🌱 low (<3m) vegetation drives abundances,

🌳 more mosquitoes in urban parks and residential (with gardens) areas than in densely built areas.

#rstats #randomforest #openscience

📸 Huge thanks to Nil Rahola and Luciano Mucci for their outstanding macrophotography work.
🔗 All publications are freely available on Zenodo.

#Entomology #Mosquitoes #Culicidae #Anopheles #Toxorhynchites #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #VectorBiology #Zenodo #Research #Afrotropical

This work is part of the ANR DIV-YOO project (“Mosquito diversity in West Africa: determinants of a probable decline and implications for vector-borne disease epidemiology and control”), coordinated in collaboration with the Medical Zoology Unit of Institut Pasteur de Dakar.
@ird-fr.bsky.social

We also released, simultaneously, a key to the females of the genus Toxorhynchites (in French as well). 🔗 buff.ly/utagZhu
And the French key to Anopheles is already available on Zenodo!
🔗 buff.ly/jme4oMY

#Toxorhynchites #Anopheles

The key features macrophotographs mainly taken by @nil-rahola.bsky.social, and Luciano Mucci, drawn from the @arimcollection.bsky.social.
It’s designed to make mosquito identification more accessible for researchers and students working in vector biology and biodiversity.

They correspond to COI sequences in leaf litter. Apart from this, the whole genus is considered absent in Madagascar (no larvae or adults found)... Can you confirm this latter point @nil-rahola.bsky.social ?