Aedes mosquito distribution across urban and peri-urban areas of Kinshasa city, Democratic Republic of Congo

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Nsabatien V, Zanga J, Mvuama N, Bokulu A, Lukoki H, Diza G, Kantin D, Bosulu C, Basosila N, Agossa F, Nagahuedi J, Palata J G, Metelo E (2025). Aedes mosquito distribution across urban and peri-urban areas of Kinshasa city, Democratic Republic of Congo. Version 1.1. University of Kinshasa. Samplingevent dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/africa/resource?r=aedes_data&v=1.1

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Kinshasa. 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.

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This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 564cd4e6-3682-4513-8b0b-5aa330840427.  University of Kinshasa publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence Aedes Unikin Kinshasa; Observation

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Sampling was conducted in two distinct areas of Kinshasa city: Kitambo municipality, representing an urban environment located in the southwestern part of the city, and Mont-Ngafula municipality, representing a peri-urban environment located in the northwestern part of the city. The dataset thus covers selected urban and peri-urban localities within Kinshasa city, enabling comparative analysis of arboviral vector distribution across different urbanization landscapes.

Taxonomic Coverage

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Temporal Coverage

Project Data

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Sampling Methods

A variety of sampling techniques were employed to target both adult and immature stages of Aedes populations. These included human landing catches (HLC), Prokopack aspirators, BG-Sentinel traps, and larval dipping.

Method step description:

1. The present work is an analytical cross-sectional study conducted over 12 months, including the dry and rainy seasons (January 2024 - December 2024). In addition, the present work was carried out both in the field and in the laboratory. A. field work involved : - prospecting breeding sites and collecting larvae ; - Characterizing types of breeding sites ; - capturing mosquitoes according to the sampling techniques selected; - record the geolocation coordinates of the various capture sites. B. laboratory work focused on - raising the pre-imaginal stages of Aedes; - morphological identification of adult mosquitoes using the identification keys of Huang & Rueda (2014) and Coetzee (2020).

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