Literature based occurrence locations of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in India since 2015

India has witnessed a five-fold increase in dengue incidence in the past
decade. However, the nation-wide distribution of dengue vectors, and the
impacts of climate change are not known. Species distribution models are a
novel approach for determining the distribution of species based on
biologically relevant environmental factors, and relies on known presence
and absence locations of the species. The Global Biodiversity Information
Facility (GBIF) contains 562 records of Aedes aegypti occurrence
and 207 records of Aedes albopictus occurrence in India, most of which are
derived from a large scale study that compiled the global geographic
database of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus locations up to 2014, based
on peer reviewed literature, national entomological surveys and expert
networks. However, there was a need to update the occurrence locations
after 2014. To overcome this knowledge gap, we compiled data on
the occurrences of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in India, based on
published literature after 2014 that carried out entomological surveys in
India. This dataset was combined with data from GBIF to map the present
and future distributions of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in India
based on different scenarios for climate change.