Integrated taxonomy of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) reveals unexpected diversity in the most arid ecosystem of Europe

• Ignacio Ruiz-Arrondo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: irarrondo@riojasalud.es

  Affiliation Center of Rickettsiosis and Arthropod-Borne Diseases (CRETAV), Infectious Diseases Department, San Pedro University Hospital-Center for Biomedical Research from La Rioja (CIBIR), Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-8118

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• Jesús Veiga,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA-CSIC), Almería, Spain, Departmento de Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, MEMEG, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1140-2411

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• Peter H. Adler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6772-8280

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• Francisco Collantes,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8085-6399

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• José A. Oteo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Rickettsiosis and Arthropod-Borne Diseases (CRETAV), Infectious Diseases Department, San Pedro University Hospital-Center for Biomedical Research from La Rioja (CIBIR), Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7080-6542

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• Francisco Valera

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

  Affiliation Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA-CSIC), Almería, Spain

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