Reviewer name and names of any other individual's who aided in reviewer	Paul Taconet
Do you understand and agree to our policy of having open and named reviews, and having your review included with the published papers. (If no, please inform the editor that you cannot review this manuscript.)	Yes
Is the language of sufficient quality?	Yes
Please add additional comments on language quality to clarify if needed
Are all data available and do they match the descriptions in the paper?	No
Additional Comments	There are notable differences between the level of detail presented in the manuscript and that available in the dataset. While the manuscript provides detailed information on species composition, sporozoite infection rates, sources of blood meals, and so on, the dataset contains very limited data, mainly restricted to the year and location of sample collection. From what I understand (not sure though), there were 1062 sampling sessions over which 477111 anopheles mosquitoes were collected. However in the dataset ‘occurrence’ what you actually report are the ‘events’ (ie. mostly the dates and places of collections). To be compliant with the GBIF requirements (and overall to make the dataset more useful), you should use the Gbif "Sampling Event" standard (https://www.gbif.org/data-quality-requirements-sampling-events), with 2 datasets : 'event' (describing the sampling event) and 'occurrence' (describing the actual occurrences of the species, related to the sampling event). In the 'event' dataset, please report : - the exact date of collection (colum EventDate) (not only the year). - the sampling effort (colums sampleSizeValue, sampleSizeUnit, SamplingEffort) and in the 'occurrence' dataset : - the number of individuals collected for each event (column individualCount) In addition you may fill the column municipality (easier for re-use) Also, where available, you should : - report the occurrence at the species level (not only the genus, as it is the case in the current version of the dataset). - report the additional information (Sporozoites Infectivity, Blood Meal Analysis, etc..)
Are the data and metadata consistent with relevant minimum information or reporting standards? See GigaDB checklists for examples <a href="http://gigadb.org/site/guide" target="_blank">http://gigadb.org/site/guide</a>	Yes
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Is the data acquisition clear, complete and methodologically sound?	Yes
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Is there sufficient detail in the methods and data-processing steps to allow reproduction?	Yes
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Is there sufficient data validation and statistical analyses of data quality?	Yes
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Is the validation suitable for this type of data?	Yes
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Is there sufficient information for others to reuse this dataset or integrate it with other data?	Yes
Additional Comments	in the abstract, please add the collection time frame (start date and end date)
Any Additional Overall Comments to the Author	Thank you for your motivation in sharing your very valuable dataset !
Recommendation	Minor Revision