About the Authors
- Jerome C. Regier
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* E-mail: regier@umd.edu (JCR); cmitter@umd.edu (CM)
Affiliations Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Charles Mitter
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* E-mail: regier@umd.edu (JCR); cmitter@umd.edu (CM)
Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Andreas Zwick
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Affiliation Entomology, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany
- Adam L. Bazinet
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Michael P. Cummings
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Akito Y. Kawahara
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Affiliation Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Jae-Cheon Sohn
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Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Derrick J. Zwickl
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Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Soowon Cho
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Affiliation Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea
- Donald R. Davis
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Affiliation Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Joaquin Baixeras
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Affiliation Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- John Brown
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Affiliation Systematic Entomology Lab, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
- Cynthia Parr
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Affiliation Encyclopedia of Life, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Susan Weller
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Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- David C. Lees
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Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, England
- Kim T. Mitter
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Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Oversaw taxon collection: CM. Helped oversee taxon collection: KTM. Directed sequence generation: JCR. Assembled, error-checked, and submitted all sequences to GenBank: JCR AZ AYK. Conceived all analyses: JCR CM MPC AZ AYK ALB DJZ J-CS. Performed phylogenetic analyses: JCR AZ ALB J-CS. Wrote and assembled the manuscript: JCR CM. Commented on the manuscript: JCR CM MPC AZ AYK ALB DJZ J-CS SC DRD JB JB CP SW DCL KTM.