Dr. Yue Fu, lead author of this book, received a doctor's degree in Zoology from Nankai University in Tianjin, China. She is currently an associate professor at Hubei University in Hubei, China. Dr. Fu is one of the most experienced specialists of the Corynoneura group in the world. She reviewed the group in Asia and the Nearctic region and she did the phylogeny of the group. This author group has studied on Chironomidae for 12 years and have published a number of papers on the Corynoneura group.