About the Authors

Qiang Yang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

Vladimir N. Makarkin

vnmakarkin@mail.ru (VM); rendong@mail.cnu.edu.cn (DR)

Affiliations College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

Shaun L. Winterton

Affiliation California State Collection of Arthropods, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Alexander V. Khramov

Affiliation Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Dong Ren

vnmakarkin@mail.ru (VM); rendong@mail.cnu.edu.cn (DR)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: QY VM SW VK DR. Wrote the paper: VM SW QY VK DR. Photographs: QY VK. The line drawings: QY VM VK.