Comments to the Author

The renowned entomologist Johanna Bonne-Wepster over from 1917 to 1961 collected huge collections of mosquito records mostly in the former Dutch colonies of Indonesia and Suriname. Efforts have been taken to digitise her original field books, mobilizing data contained in them and corroborating this with the associated specimens. These archival texts and 55,706 records of mosquitoes are for the first time being made public via the GBIF repository. The data made available through this project being particularly valuable because it describes historical and recent records of mosquitoes and can be used in different areas of research including estimates of spatial distribution, modeling current and future distributions through Ecological Niche Modeling, and for vector control programs.