Dataset on the diversity and distribution of biting flies collected from cattle farms in Peninsular Malaysia

Shola David Ola-Fadunsin; Fufa Ido Gimba; Donea Abdurazak Abdullah; Faez Firdaus Jesse Abdullah; Rehana Abdullah Sani

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105315

Dataset on the diversity and distribution of biting flies collected from cattle farms in Peninsular Malaysia

Data Brief. 2020 Feb 22:29:105315. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105315. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Shola David Ola-Fadunsin^{1

2}, Fufa Ido Gimba^{1

3}, Donea Abdurazak Abdullah^{1

4}, Faez Firdaus Jesse Abdullah¹, Rehana Abdullah Sani¹

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
² Department of Veterinary Parasitology and Entomology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ilorin, PMB, 1515 Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.
³ Avian Influenza Control Project Animal Health Component Desk Office, Taraba State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources Jalingo, Taraba State, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Animal Production, Northern Technical University Mosul, Iraq.

Abstract

This dataset investigated the diversity, the geographic and spatial distribution of haematophagous flies collected from cattle farms in Peninsular Malaysia. Biting flies were trapped from 25 cattle farms over a one-year period. One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to establish the presence/absence of statistical differences in the number of flies caught in relation to the different geographic distributions (zones). Three thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine haematophagous flies comprising of 36 different species, including Musca species (3189; 82.0%), Stomoxys species (588; 15.1%), Tabanus species (58; 1.5%), Chrysops species (19; 0.5%), Haematopota javana (3; 0.1%), Haematobosca species (29; 0.7%) and Haematobia exigua (3; 0.1%) were collected using three different types of fly traps. More biting flies were trapped in the southwest (1070; 27.5%) and south (1045; 26.9%) zones compared to other arbitrary zones of Peninsular Malaysia. Haematophagous flies were spatially distributed both in the inland and coastal parts of the country. The difference in the catch of Stomoxys species within zones was not significant (F = 1.299; df = 5; p = 0.306), although it was highest in the southwest zone. The number of Musca species caught was highest in the south zone compared to other zones, the differences was not significant (F = 0.770; df = 5; p = 0.583). Tabanidae fly species were most abundant in the southwest zone, the differences among zones was not significant (F = 1.179; df = 5; p = 0.356).

Keywords: Distribution; Haematophagous flies; Peninsular Malaysia; Zones.