Fraiwan Mohammad, Mukbel Rami, Kanaan Dania
Department of Computer Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030 Irbid 22110 Jordan.
College of Veterinary Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030 Irbid 22110 Jordan.
Data Brief. 2024 Oct 16;57:111031. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.111031. eCollection 2024 Dec.
Sandflies serve as carriers for numerous tropical diseases, including leishmaniasis, bartonellosis, and sandfly fever. Furthermore, sandflies are species-specific when it comes to transmitting corresponding pathogen species. Hence, accurate classification and identification of sandfly species and gender are essential for various purposes such as disease monitoring and control, population management, research and development, and epidemiological investigations. Most of the sexing and taxonomy keys are based on internal morphological features, which may lead to errors due to some features being missed by the naked eye. In this paper, we describe the process we used to collect and prepare samples of three sandfly species (, and ). The dataset described in this article contains two images per sample, representing the pharynx in the head and the genitalia in the abdomen. The dataset is organized into male and female categories for each of the three species. The sex and species were determined manually by two specialists. This dataset can be used to develop automated methods for sex identification and taxonomy. Additionally, it can be used to train students in speciation and taxonomy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first publicly available dataset of images of this kind.
白蛉是多种热带疾病的传播媒介，包括利什曼病、巴尔通体病和白蛉热。此外，白蛉在传播相应病原体物种方面具有物种特异性。因此，准确分类和鉴定白蛉的物种和性别对于疾病监测与控制、种群管理、研发以及流行病学调查等各种目的至关重要。大多数性别鉴定和分类学关键依据的是内部形态特征，由于某些特征肉眼可能会遗漏，这可能导致错误。在本文中，我们描述了用于收集和制备三种白蛉物种（ 、 和 ）样本的过程。本文所述数据集每个样本包含两张图像，分别代表头部的咽部和腹部的生殖器。该数据集针对三种物种中的每一种都分为雄性和雌性类别。性别和物种由两名专家手动确定。这个数据集可用于开发性别鉴定和分类学的自动化方法。此外，它可用于培训学生进行物种形成和分类学方面的学习。据我们所知，这是首个此类公开可用的图像数据集。
