Moskeytool

1. Download and install the Xper2 identification version software

Version 2.3.2 for Windows XP/Vista/7 / Linux / MacOS X (>10.10) * / MacOS X (<10.11) * More infos on Xper2.

*Help for installation on Mac.

2. Download the MosKeyTool database (.zip file):

English version: http://bioinfo-web.mpl.ird.fr/identiciels/zip/moskeytool_V2.2_english.zip

French version: http://bioinfo-web.mpl.ird.fr/identiciels/zip/moskeytools_V2.2_french.zip

3. Open the Xper2 software Go to File -> Open a Database and select the file “[name of the database].xpd"

Tutorial to use MosKeyTool from MediLabSecure on Vimeo.

The MosKeyTool is intended to help people, which are entomologists or not, to identify the species of a mosquito specimen.

• This user-friendly interface integrates two categories of criteria: morphological (the specimen observation) and geographical (the provenance country of the specimen).
• The MosKeyTool targets are two stages: adult female and 4th stage larva. It may also keep going with male and larva of stages <4 with lower level of confidence.
• The reference area of MosKeyTool is the western palearctic biogeographic region, including Europe, Atlantic and Mediterranean Islands, Northern Africa, South Caucasus and part of the Middle-East. Most of the time, the countries are used as geographical unit. However the main islands or isolated archipelago are also used as geographic unit.
• MosKeyTool can be used as supporting material for (self)-learning and also for teaching the morphology, taxonomy and systematic of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae).

If you have relevant information concerning taxonomy and new presence/absence per country, please, be kind enough to share it with Filiz Gunay and Vincent Robert at [email protected], and so we will be able to update periodically the MosKeyTool.