Dr. Ze Chen PhD is currently an Associate Professor at Hebei Normal University, where she previously received her PhD in Ecology. From 2015 to 2019, she was an Associate Professor in the Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on tick taxonomy, biology, phylogenetics, and physiology with respect to disease transmission. She is the author of Systematics and Taxonomy of Ixodida from Science Press and has co-authored numerous other publications on tick species. Dr. Richard G. Robbins PhD is an Emeritus Research Associate at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He is also a Curatorial Affiliate in the Division of Entomology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Dr. Robbins received his PhD from George Washington University, focusing on the systematics and ecology of ticks. He is currently on the editorial board for Systematic and Applied Acarology and serves as an external reviewer for numerous journals, including Elsevier’s Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases.