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The paper refers to the merge of data, based mainly on bibliography, but also on recent sampling campaign, on the genus Cernosvitoviella present in different freshwater habitat types of the Alps, but greatly overlooked. Three different States with their regions or Cantons were involved, and a total amount of 15 species was found. Some notes on the ecological requirements and on the geographic distribution of all the species caught are provided to give a more sound grounding of their presence in different water-types at local level. In addition, during the monitoring campaign of the International Cooperative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring Effects of Air Pollution on Rivers and Lakes, individuals of Cernosvitoviella goodhui Healy 1975 from one high altitude lake in Canton Ticino were found for the first time for Switzerland and here presented.

A data set including information on macroinvertebrates identified to genus/species group/species level was created within the mon-itoring activities of several European and national projects. The data set includes 2111 macroinvertebrate records on temporalfragmentarydata from lakes Paione (upper, middle, and lower lakes Paione), and 530 records on spatial data relative to eight other high-al titudelakes from the Ossola Valley (North-western Italy, Piedmont, Central Alps). The study area is included within the Lake Maggiore wa-tershed. All records are georeferenced because, since the beginning of the studies, temporal data were taken in the same sampling sitesover years. The temporal data span the period 1989-2020, the spatial data refer to the 2019-2020 sampling activity. The dataset isavailable for download in .csv format at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) data infrastructure.Corresponding author: angela.boggero@irsa.cnr.itKey words: aquatic habitat; zoobenthos; occurrence; mountainarea; geographic distribution; long-term data.Citation: Boggero A, Dumnicka E, Fornaroli R, Paganelli D, ZaupaS. Geotargeting spatial and temporal data of Italian freshwaterhigh-altitude macroinvertebrates. J. Limnol. 2023;82:2104.Edited by: Diego Fontaneto, National Research Council, Water Re-search Institute (CNR-IRSA), Verbania Pallanza, Italy.Received: 20 November 2022.Accepted: 10 March 2023.Publisher’s note: All claims expressed in this article are solely thoseof the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affili-ated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the re-viewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claimthat may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsedby the publisher.©Copyright: the Author(s), 2023Licensee PAGEPress, ItalyJ. Limnol., 2023; 82(s1):2104DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2104This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Non-commercial use only (PDF) Geotargeting spatial and temporal data of Italian freshwater high-altitude macroinvertebrates. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369399051_Geotargeting_spatial_and_temporal_data_of_Italian_freshwater_high-altitude_macroinvertebrates [accessed Jun 16 2023].