About the Authors

Waheed Akhter

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

Farhan Mahmood Shah

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

farhanshah0009@yahoo.com (FMS); muhammadrazaq@bzu.edu.pk (MR); ymlzlytd@163.com (MY)

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

Minglu Yang

Roles Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

farhanshah0009@yahoo.com (FMS); muhammadrazaq@bzu.edu.pk (MR); ymlzlytd@163.com (MY)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Southern Xinjiang, College of Agriculture, Tarim University, Alar, Xinjiang, China

Shoaib Freed

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Razaq

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

farhanshah0009@yahoo.com (FMS); muhammadrazaq@bzu.edu.pk (MR); ymlzlytd@163.com (MY)

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

Angela Gerald Mkindi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

Hina Akram

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

Abid Ali

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Khalid Mahmood

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Chemical Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Hanif

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.