About the Authors

Jae-Cheon Sohn

jsohn@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jerome C. Regier

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Charles Mitter

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Donald Davis

Affiliation Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America

Jean-François Landry

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, C.E.F., Ottawa, Canada

Andreas Zwick

Affiliation Department of Entomology, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany

Michael P. Cummings

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Taxonomy and classification: JCS CM DD JFL. Performed the experiments: JCS JCR. Analyzed the data: JCS JCR CM AZ MPC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCS JCR CM DD JFL AZ MPC. Wrote the paper: JCS JCR CM DD JFL AZ MPC.