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 …

We use three examples—field and ecology-based inventories in Costa Rica and Papua
New Guinea and a museum and taxonomic-based inventory of the moth family Geometridae …

Halting biodiversity decline is one of the most critical challenges for humanity, but monitoring
biodiversity is hampered by taxonomic impediments. One impediment is the large number of …

A checklist of world species of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
is provided. A total of 81 genera and 2,999 extant species are recognized as valid, including …

The most widely recognized hymenopterans–ants, bees, and wasps or hornets–have long
been part of art, ritual, and folklore worldwide. Both extant and extinct Hymenoptera were …

We have been field observers of tropical insects on four continents and, since 1978, intense
observers of caterpillars, their parasites, and their associates in the 1,260 km2 of dry, cloud …

Descriptions and diagnoses are alternative choices in all Codes of Nomenclature because
Linnaeus relied on diagnoses, not descriptions, to name ca. 13,400 animals, plants, and …

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 …

A recent paper (Sharkey et al. 2021a) describing 416 new species of Braconidae parasitoid
wasps (Hymenoptera) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica has reignited …

The 37-year ongoing inventory of the estimated 15 000 species of Lepidoptera living in the
125 000 terrestrial hectares of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica …