What's New?

  • 24 Jun 2010. New points (126206-126222) for Chicago area, and Sri Lanka (126223-128684).
  • 29 Jun 2010. New points (128685-128930) for Sweden, and Indonesia (128931-130914). New collection schema form featuring drop-down pick lists and map previewer. Addition of Built-up areas layer. New vector layers for North America.
  • 22 July 2010. Updated collection form, new vector and malaria models for Tanzania according to Kulkarni et al. (2010). PLoS ONE 5(2): e9396
  • 20 Aug 2010. Updated collection form, new points for Japan (130915-130986), Bolivia (130987-132029), and Chiapas Mexico (132030-133201)
  • 17 Sep 2010. Added Pf malaria layer for Laos (Jorgensen et al. 2010. Malaria Journal 9:59).
  • 29 Oct 2010. Added Pf malaria layer for Bangladesh (Reid et al. 2010. Am.J.Trop.Med.Hyg. 83:861–867), and layers for: 1-m sea level rise, total species, endemic species, species richness, and country of occurrence for various species. Updated Mosquito collection form.
  • 17 Nov 2010. Added Pv malaria layer for Turkey (Dogan HM, et al. 2010. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 104:726-732). Updated mosquito collection form.
  • 29 Nov 2010. Over 100,000 records added for USA (CHPPM-W dataset: 100133202-100233811). Added place holder vector distribution models for Africa (11 models) and South America (8 models). Updated mosquito collection form.
  • 19 Apr 2011. Connection to Silverlight version of MosquitoMap established. New fields of information. Collection form updated.
  • 3 June 2011. Updated collection form.
  • 5 July 2011. Updated collection form. Added new summary fields in data. Added 7617 records for Kenya (Sang R., et al. 2010).
  • 2 Aug 2011. Included 83 MaxEnt distribution models for various mosquito species from Dr Arpad Nyari. Updated collection form and included new fields.
  • 19 Oct 2011. Transition to new server.
  • 3 Dec 2011. New Malaria layers from MAP for infectious days and Temperature suitability.
  • 7 Mar 2012. New country layer with hyperlinks to information on vector ecology and human health. New mosquito models for the Atlantic Forest, Brazil (see Laporta et al. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 106(Suppl. I): 239-245, 2011)
  • 30 Apr 2012. New collection forms featuring: separate essential information fields, linked vector and pathogen sheets, dependent drop-down lists, and hyperlinks for mapping and error checking locality information
  • 24 Jul 2012. 1,695 worldwide mosquito records from Tom Kollars (MEVLABS, Inc.); 565 records of molecular barcoded members of the An. albitaris group from Dr R. Lopez; Ecological niche models to mosquitoes including for An. albimanus by Fuller D.O. et al. (1012). Int. J. Hlth Geograph. 11:13
  • 26 Nov 2012. Over 50,000 new records for the United States, Kenya and Peru from Ben Pagac, Alex Spring, Joshua Bast, and Roxanne Burrus
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