*Anika Preuss¹, Thies H. Büscher¹, Thomas van de Kamp², Thomas Schwaha³, Insa Herzog⁴, Peter Wohlsein⁴, Kristina Lehnert⁴, Stanislav N. Gorb¹ (1. Kiel University (Germany), 2. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany), 3. University of Vienna (Austria), 4. University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (Germany))

*Bret M Boyd¹, Niyomi House², Christopher W Carduck¹, David L Reed³ (1. VCU (United States of America), 2. UNR (United States of America), 3. UF (United States of America))

*Jorge Doña^1,2, Kevin Paul Johnson² (1. University of Granada (Spain), 2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States of America))

*Therese A. Catanach¹, Kiana Habersham^1,2, Kevin P. Johnson³, Jason D. Weckstein^1,4 (1. Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel Univeristy (United States of America), 2. Temple University (United States of America), 3. Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois (United States of America), 4. Department of Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, Drexel University (United States of America))

*Stephen L Cameron¹, Kevin P Johnson², Andrew D Sweet³ (1. Purdue University (United States of America), 2. University of Illinois (United States of America), 3. Arkansas State University (United States of America))

*Julie Allen¹, Jessica Light², Lance Durden³, Priscilla San Juan⁴, Kayce Bell⁴ (1. Virginia Tech (United States of America), 2. Texas A&M University (United States of America), 3. Georgia Southern University (United States of America), 4. LA County Museum (United States of America))

*Kamila Mayumi Kuabara^1,2, Jon Merwin^1,2, Lukas Musher², Therese Catanach², Michel Valim⁵, Kevin Johnson³, Thomas Valqui⁴, Jason Weckstein^1,2 (1. Drexel University (United States of America), 2. Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (United States of America), 3. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (United States of America), 4. Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Peru), 5. Universidade Iguaçu (Brazil))

*Niyomi House^2,1,4, Aida T Miro-Herrans^2,3, Marina S Ascunce⁵, Julie M Allen⁴, Muhammad Ashfaq⁶, Bret M Boyd⁷, Henk Braig^8,9, Oleg Mediannikov¹⁰, Kosta Y Mumcuoglu¹¹, Alejandra Perotti¹², Ramírez-Rozzi V Fernando¹³, Dider Raoult¹⁰, Lajos Rozsa^14,15, Jan Stefka¹⁶, Ariel C Toloza¹⁷, Natacha V Wirdemark¹⁸, David L Reed² (1. Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (United States of America), 2. Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (United States of America), 3. George Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (United States of America), 4. Department of Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (United States of America), 5. USDA-ARS, Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology (CMAVE), Fire Ant Unit, Gainesville, Florida (United States of America), 6. Centre for Biodiversity Genomics and Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario (Canada), 7. Center for Biological Data Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia (United States of America), 8. School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Wales (UK), 9. Institute and Museum of Natural Sciences, National University of San Juan, San Juan (Argentine), 10. Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, MEPHI, Marseille (France), 11. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem (Israel), 12. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Section, School of Biological Science, University of Reading (UK), 13. UMR 7206 Ecoanthropologie, MNHN, CNRS, UP (France), 14. Institute of Evolution, ELKH Centre for Ecological Research (Hungary), 15. Centre for Eco-Epidemiology, National Laboratory for Health Security (Hungary), 16. Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, CZ and Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS (Czech Republic), 17. Centro de Investigaciones de Plagas e Insecticidas (CONICET-UNIDEF), Villa Martelli, Buenos Aires (Argentine), 18. LusFri Inspagat AB, Stockholm (Sweden))