Sand fly (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) records in Acre, Brazil: a dataset

Amazonian phlebotomine sand fly fauna is one of the most diverse in the world. The Amazon region is also the most prevalent for leishmaniasis in Brazil and South America. The state of Acre, in this region, also stands out in terms of the diversity of sand fly fauna, as well as the occurrence of American tegumentary leishmaniasis. In this context, the present dataset comprises a bibliographic review of sand fly species recorded in Acre state, Brazil. A total of 1,094 observations from material citations and two of preserved specimens are presented using 33 variables according to Darwin Core terms. The bibliographic review was performed in PubMed, Google Scholar, SciELO, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, and references cited in related scientific articles. Thus, this report will be valuable for further studies on sand flies in Acre and other Amazon states.

Note that the number of species for Rio Branco and Xapuri may be different from that shown here (table in GigaDB [1]). This is because one of the articles clustered the results for both municipalities. Therefore, we had to group all species records (for this specific article) under the same name (Bujari/Rio Branco/Xapuri) (table in GigaDB [1]). The species Psychodopygus corossoniensis (Le Pont & Pajot, 1978) was only recorded once in the state, but because the author did not name the municipality in which specimens were collected (the only location reference is "AC Highway Km 22"), the county for this observation is NA.
The chronological table provided in GigaDB [1] presents the scientific data used to compile the dataset by municipality, author and species names.

CONTEXT
Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) are insects of great medical interest since they can transmit pathogens such as leishmaniases, bartonellosis and some arboviruses [2].
In the Americas, 547 sand fly species have been recorded, with most in tropical areas. The Amazon region shows the greatest diversity and species richness for these insects [3,4].

Study area
The state of Acre state is situated in the north of Brazil and is part of the Amazon region, corresponding to 1.92% of the Brazilian territory. The population is about 900,000 inhabitants. The economy is based mainly in the extraction of forest materials, particularly rubber and Brazilian chestnut for exportation. Its vegetation is tropical forest, and it has humid and hot equatorial climate. The average annual temperature is 31.5°C and rainfall is 2100 mm [23].
Geographically, the state is divided into two meso-regions named Juruá and Acre Valley, which are subdivided into five microregions: Rio Branco, Sena Madureira and Brasiléia belonging to Acre Valley, and Cruzeiro do Sul and Tarauacá belonging to Juruá Valley [23] (see Figure 1).

Preserved specimens
The records of two preserved sand fly specimens were included in the dataset. These insects were captured using CDC/Shannon traps. After capture, the insects were screened, separated, and identified along with their capture location. The insects were identified using the procedure proposed by Forattini [25]. After the identification process, specimens were mounted between slide and cover slip in Enece medium [26]  Name of author(s) that identified the specimens Year when the record was published Species name and authorship Kingdom that the species belongs to Pphylum that the species belongs to Class that the species belongs to Order that the species belongs to Family that the species belongs to Genus that the species belongs to Subgenus that the species belongs to Species-specific name Species sub-specific name Taxonomic level of the specimen Author and year of species description Species Identification: name of authors, year of identification and taxonomic detail of sand fly specimens

Bibliographic review
To review bibliographic material, the following online databases were used: PubMed, Google Scholar, SciELO, BVS -Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde. The following search terms were used: "Acre" AND ("sand fly" OR "sandfly" OR "sandflies" OR "sand flies" OR "Phlebotominae"). Bibliographic references cited in scientific articles were also used as data sources.
All scientific articles/books were assessed to obtain data from 33 standardized variables of Darwin Core terms [27] (Table 1). These variables were grouped into four subsets to identify the dataset; to describe essential information about specimen condition and quantity; capture location and methods; and taxonomic status for each observation (Table 1).

DATA VALIDATION AND QUALITY CONTROL
Data were collected and checked with the aid of other bibliographical references [3]. Names were checked by experienced taxonomists, and data were validated via the GBIF data validator tool upon submission of the data [24].

REUSE POTENTIAL
We have assembled the most exhaustive scientific data on sand flies in Acre, Brazil that have been published until now. This dataset provides important knowledge on the distribution, identification, and taxonomic status of the sand fly species already recorded in Gigabyte, 2022, DOI: 10.46471/gigabyte.60 4/7 the state, and will form a solid reference for future studies on sand fly ecology, epidemiology and taxonomy in the area.

DATA AVAILABILITY
Phlebotomine sand fly species registered by municipality in Acre state, and chronological records of phlebotomine sand fly species by author and municipality (built from the cited literature and [27][28][29][30][31][32]) are both available in the GigaScience GigaDB repository [1]. The dataset used in this manuscript was deposited in the Sistema de Informação sobre a Biodiversidade Brasileira (SiBBr) integrated publishing toolkit (IPT) [24].