DNA barcoding involves sequencing a standard region of DNA as a tool for species identification. However, there has been no agreement on which region(s) should be used for barcoding land plants. To provide a community ...

Plenty of evidence indicates that the earthworms Eisenia fetida (Savigny, 1826) and Eisenia andrei Bouché, 1972 (Lumbricidae) can be distinguished by morphological, physiological and molecular traits. However, the morphological ...

Independent characters-genitalia (male and female), DNA barcodes, and larval foodplants-show that Telles arcalaus (Stoll), despite its exceedingly distinctive facies and small size, belongs in the genus Thracides, where ...

Robust data to refute or support claims of global insect decline are currently lacking, particularly for the soil fauna in the tropics. DNA metabarcoding represents a powerful approach for rigorous spatial and temporal ...

Background: Skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae) are a relatively well-studied family of Lepidoptera. However, a combination of DNA barcodes, morphology, and natural history data has revealed several cryptic species complexes ...

Background: An intense, 30-year, ongoing biodiversity inventory of Lepidoptera, together with their food plants and parasitoids, is centered on the rearing of wild-caught caterpillars in the 120,000 terrestrial hectares ...

Biodiversity of tropical Saturniidae, as measured through traditionally described and catalogued species, strongly risks pooling cryptic species under one name. We examined the DNA barcodes, morphology, habitus and ecology ...