Acknowledgments
This work was supported by PUCE’s Research Directorate, project
“Presencia del gorgojo del eucalipto en Ecuador y riesgo potencial para
América del Sur”. Work by JAS-C was partly supported by a National
Science Foundation grant DEB:2135257. Collection of specimens and
obtention of DNA sequence data were performed under permit
MAE-DNB-CM-2015-0030 granted by the Ministerio del Ambiente of Ecuador.
DNA sequencing was possible thanks to the support by the grant Arca de
Noé Initiative, PIs. S. Ron and O. Torres Carvajal, funded by Secretaría
de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación del Ecuador.