Fig. 1

Map of Panama depicting the geographical locations of 276 garages trading used tires along the primary road network system of the country (black dots), including 79 sampled garages which were positive for the presence of Aedes mosquitoes. Yellow color dots represent the presence of Ae. aegypti; green color dots represent the presence of Ae. albopictus; red color dots represent the occurrence of both species (i.e. co-existence). The density of roads per square kilometer is depicted as a shading gradient of light and dark orange, yellow and blue colors. The map was created using ArcMap v.10.6 [28] with original data obtained from the GIS Laboratory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 2011 (https://stridata-si.opendata.arcgis.com)