About the Authors

Candace E. Fallon

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

candace.fallon@xerces.org

Affiliations The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, IUCN SSC Firefly Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland

Anna C. Walker

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IUCN SSC Firefly Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland, New Mexico BioPark Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Sara Lewis

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IUCN SSC Firefly Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland, Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joseph Cicero

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Lynn Faust

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IUCN SSC Firefly Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland, Emory River Land Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Christopher M. Heckscher

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IUCN SSC Firefly Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Delaware State University, Dover, Delaware, United States of America

Cisteil X. Pérez-Hernández

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IUCN SSC Firefly Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Michoacán, México

Ben Pfeiffer

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations IUCN SSC Firefly Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland, Firefly Conservation and Research, New Braunfels, Texas, United States of America

Sarina Jepsen

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, IUCN SSC Firefly Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.