About the Authors

Abdallah M. Samy

samy@sci.asu.edu.eg; samy@ku.edu

Affiliations Biodiversity Institute and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America, Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Badereddin B. Annajar

Affiliation Libyan National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Tripoli, Libya

Mostafa Ramadhan Dokhan

Affiliations Libyan National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Tripoli, Libya, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science (Sabratha), University of Zawia, Zawia, Libya

Samia Boussaa

Affiliations Laboratory of Ecology and Environment (URAC 32, CNRST; ERACNERS 06), Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco, Institut Supérieur des Professions Infirmières et des Techniques de Santé (ISPITS), Ministry of Health, Marrakesh, Morocco

A. Townsend Peterson

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMS. Performed the experiments: AMS ATP. Analyzed the data: AMS ATP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMS ATP BBA SB MRD. Wrote the paper: AMS. Reviewed the manuscript: AMS ATP BBA MRD SB.