About the Authors

Tiberiu C. Sahlean

Affiliations Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Department of Terrestrial Fauna, “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania

Iulian Gherghel

iulian.gherghel@okstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Monica Papeş

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Alexandru Strugariu

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iaşi, Romania

Ştefan R. Zamfirescu

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iaşi, Romania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IG TCS MP AS SRZ. Performed the experiments: IG MP. Analyzed the data: IG TCS MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP SRZ. Wrote the paper: IG TCS MP AS SRZ. Proofread and edit the manuscript: TCS MP IG AS SRZ. Literature review: TCS IG. Georeferenced the locality data: TCS.