Louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae): United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and Isle of Man: Citizen science data: Part 2, host associations

British Trust for Ornithology licensed bird ringers, and other citizen scientists with an interest in entomology, collected 4365 louse flies (also known as flat flies) and keds (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) for the Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project. The project expanded to include the Republic of Ireland and the Isle of Man as well as the United Kingdom, and includes a few flies from as early as 2002, as well as those from the main study period of 2020 - 2024. The flies included in this database are the UK Hippoboscids: louse flies: Crataerina pallida, Ornithomya avicularia, Ornithomya chloropus, Ornithomya biloba, Stenepteryx hirundinis, Pseudolynchia canariensis, Pseudolynchia garzettae, and Icosta minor, and the keds* Lipoptena cervi, Hippobosca equina* and Melophagus ovinus. This dataset included the Hippoboscid species names, year of collection, location details to an accuracy of a 10km Ordnance Survey grid square, and host species names. Only the year of collection is provided, ..., This dataset contains some of the raw data from the \"Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project\" related to the host-parasite species associations. It includes data on louse flies and keds collected in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Isle of Man, but British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) licensed bird ringers and other citizen scientists with an interest in entomology. Most records date from the main study period of June 2020 to January 2025, but there are a few earlier records dating back to 2002. Volunteer bird ringers were sent collecting kits and asked to return them with any flies collected and the relevant metadata at the end of each season. Flies collected at any time - mostly as pinned specimens - were also accepted from entomologists, and anyone who wanted a Hippoboscid identified via the Hippoboscidae and Nycteribiidae Recording Scheme. Flies were identified by the author using published keys and a binocular microscope. , # Louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae): United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Isle of Man: Citizen science data: Part 2, host associations Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.4b8gthtrj](10.5061/dryad.4b8gthtrj) ## Description of the data and file structure The data were collected to explore the host-parasite interactions between Hippoboscidae in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Isle of Man, and their avian and mammalian hosts. ### Files and variables #### File: UKFlatFliesHostData.csv **Description:**Â ##### Variables * FFsp: The species of flat fly / louse fly / ked / Hippoboscid. The species are indicated by the first letter of the genus name, followed by a full stop (period), and the species name with no spaces. Thus *Ornithomya avicularia* appears as \"O.avicularia\". * YearCollected: The year in which the Hippoboscid was collected. The year in which any puparium was collected is given as the year in which it was collected (not the year in which it emerged as in ...,英国鸟类学信托基金会（British Trust for Ornithology, BTO）授权的鸟类环志人员，以及其他昆虫学爱好者公民科学家，为“英国扁蝇测绘项目”采集了4365只虱蝇（又称扁蝇）和蜱蝇（双翅目：虱蝇科（Hippoboscidae））。该项目后续扩展至涵盖爱尔兰共和国、马恩岛与英国全境，样本最早可追溯至2002年，主体研究周期为2020年至2024年。本数据库收录的英国虱蝇科物种包括：虱蝇类：褐翅椋鸟虱蝇（Crataerina pallida）、家燕鸟虱蝇（Ornithomya avicularia）、绿脚鸟虱蝇（Ornithomya chloropus）、双叶鸟虱蝇（Ornithomya biloba）、燕狭翅虱蝇（Stenepteryx hirundinis）、家鸽伪虱蝇（Pseudolynchia canariensis）、白鹭伪虱蝇（Pseudolynchia garzettae）以及小蚁虱蝇（Icosta minor）；以及蜱蝇类：鹿蜱蝇（Lipoptena cervi）、马虱蝇（Hippobosca equina）和绵羊蜱蝇（Melophagus ovinus）。本数据集包含虱蝇科物种名称、采集年份、精确至英国地形测量局（Ordnance Survey）10公里网格方块的位置信息，以及宿主物种名称。本数据集仅提供采集年份……本数据集包含“英国扁蝇测绘项目”中与宿主-寄生虫物种关联相关的部分原始数据，涵盖在英国、爱尔兰共和国及马恩岛采集的虱蝇与蜱蝇样本，采集者为英国鸟类学信托基金会（BTO）授权的鸟类环志人员及昆虫学方向公民科学家。多数记录的采集时间集中在2020年6月至2025年1月的主体研究周期内，但也包含少量可追溯至2002年的早期记录。 志愿者鸟类环志人员会收到采集套件，并需在每个季度末将采集到的蝇类及相关元数据（metadata）寄回。此外，项目也接受昆虫学家及其他希望通过虱蝇科与蛛蝇科记录计划（Hippoboscidae and Nycteribiidae Recording Scheme）进行物种鉴定的人士提交的任意时段采集的样本——大多为针插标本。所有样本均由本文作者通过已发表的分类检索表及双目显微镜（binocular microscope）完成鉴定。 # 虱蝇（双翅目：虱蝇科）：英国、爱尔兰共和国及马恩岛：公民科学数据集：第二部分，宿主关联 数据集DOI：10.5061/dryad.4b8gthtrj ## 数据与文件结构说明 本数据集旨在探究英国、爱尔兰共和国及马恩岛境内虱蝇科物种与其鸟类、哺乳类宿主之间的宿主-寄生虫互作关系。 ### 文件与变量 #### 文件：UKFlatFliesHostData.csv **描述：** ##### 变量 * FFsp：扁蝇/虱蝇/蜱蝇/虱蝇科物种的标识。命名格式为属名首字母加英文句号，后接无空格的种本名。例如*Ornithomya avicularia*将被标注为"O.avicularia"。 * YearCollected：虱蝇的采集年份。若采集的是蛹壳，则记录其采集年份（而非羽化年份……）