About the Authors

AnnaMaria Vettraino

Affiliation DIBAF, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Alain Roques

Affiliation INRA-UR633, Zoologie Forestière, Centre de recherche d'Orléans, Orléans, France

Annie Yart

Affiliation INRA-UR633, Zoologie Forestière, Centre de recherche d'Orléans, Orléans, France

Jian-ting Fan

Affiliation School of Forestry and Bio-technology, Zhejiang A & F University, Lin'an, China

Jiang-hua Sun

Affiliation State key laboratory of Integrated Management of pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Andrea Vannini

vannini@unitus.it

Affiliation DIBAF, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMV AV AR. Performed the experiments: AMV AY JF. Analyzed the data: AMV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JF JS AV. Wrote the paper: AMV AV.