About the Authors

Carlos Eduardo Almeida

almeida_ce@hotmail.com (CEA); myriam.harry@egce.cnrs-gif.fr (MH)

Affiliations Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, Brasil, UMR EGCE (Evolution, Genome, Comportment, Ecologie), CNRS-IRD-Univ. Paris-Sud, IDEEV, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Monitoramento Ambiental – PPGEMA, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, PB, Brasil

Leslie Faucher

Affiliation UMR EGCE (Evolution, Genome, Comportment, Ecologie), CNRS-IRD-Univ. Paris-Sud, IDEEV, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

Morgane Lavina

Affiliation UMR EGCE (Evolution, Genome, Comportment, Ecologie), CNRS-IRD-Univ. Paris-Sud, IDEEV, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

Jane Costa

‡ JC and MH are joint last authors on this work.

Affiliation Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

Myriam Harry

almeida_ce@hotmail.com (CEA); myriam.harry@egce.cnrs-gif.fr (MH)

‡ JC and MH are joint last authors on this work.

Affiliations UMR EGCE (Evolution, Genome, Comportment, Ecologie), CNRS-IRD-Univ. Paris-Sud, IDEEV, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CEA JC MH. Performed the experiments: CEA LF ML. Analyzed the data: CEA LF ML MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH. Wrote the paper: CEA MH. Designed field work and collected bugs: CEA JC. Designed the molecular part: MH. Performed analysis for developing new primers: CEA.