Mosquito records

From the Culicidae of Morocco database, tracing back the history of mosquitos in the country from 1916 to 2017, we extracted 9 geo-positioned points for Ae. aegypti and Ae. vexans, 59 for Ae. caspius, 53 for Ae. detritus, and 257 for Cx. pipiens [140]. Dataset records for Ae. albopictus and Ae. vittatus were obtained from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (https://www.gbif.org) and the worldwide database compiled by Kraemer et al. [68, 88, 90]. The downloaded dataset for each species was separately filtered by excluding records with missing latitude or longitude and duplicate records sharing the same coordinates [117]. Over 1550 observed points of Ae. albopictus were retained for predictions from close countries of the Mediterranean Basin, where Ae. albopictus is well established and was suspected to be the source of the identified population collected in Morocco in 2016 [17]. For Ae. vittatus, 429 assembled points were retained and used for predictions at a global scale, given that the species was recorded only once in Morocco without any detailed information regarding its geolocation [141, 142] and also given the scarce occurrence records on the species presence at the regional scale. During model training, the final records were randomly split 20 times into training and testing data in a proportion of 70:30.