Cryptic species could represent a substantial fraction of biodiversity. However, inconsistent
definitions and taxonomic treatment of cryptic species prevent informed estimates of their …

Food webs are a major focus and organizing theme of ecology, but the data used to
assemble them are deficient. Early debates over food-web data focused on taxonomic …

Three new genera are described: Michener (Proteropinae), Bioalfa (Rogadinae), and
Hermosomastax (Rogadinae). Keys are given for the New World genera of the following …

The study of global biodiversity will greatly benefit from access to comprehensive DNA
barcode libraries at continental scale, but such datasets are still very rare. Here, we …

Classifying insect species involves a tedious process of identifying distinctive morphological
insect characters by taxonomic experts. Machine learning can harness the power of …

Gracillariidae is the most species-rich leaf-mining moth family with over 2,000 described
species worldwide. In Europe, there are 263 valid named species recognized, many of …

Here we elucidate and justify a DNA barcode approach to insect species description that
can be applied to name tens of thousands of species of Ichneumonoidea and many other …

Centuries of zoological studies have amassed billions of specimens in collections
worldwide. Genomics of these specimens promises to reinvigorate biodiversity research …

The Palaearctic butterfly Melitaea didyma stands out as one of the most striking cases of
intraspecific genetic differentiation detected in Lepidoptera: 11 partially sympatric …

Species reintroductions–the translocation of individuals to areas in which a species has
been extirpated with the aim of re‐establishing a self‐sustaining population–have become a …