Despite taxonomy's 250‐year history, the past 20 years have borne witness to remarkable
advances in technology and techniques, as well as debate. DNA barcoding has generated a …

Psychodidae is a group constituted by ca. 3400 species distributed in six existing and one
extinct subfamily. Among them, Phlebotominae is of relevant medical and veterinary interest …

Background Molecular methods of species delineation are rapidly develo** and widely
considered as fast and efficient means to discover species and face the'taxonomic …

Discontent about changes in species classifications has grown in recent years. Many of
these changes are seen as arbitrary, stemming from unjustified conceptual and …

Spiny‐backed tree frogs of the genus O steocephalus are conspicuous components of the
tropical wet forests of the A mazon and the G uiana S hield. Here, we revise the phylogenetic …

Biological diversity is depleting at an alarming rate. Additionally, a vast amount of
biodiversity still remains undiscovered. Taxonomy has been serving the purpose of …

The Praomyini tribe is one of the most diverse and abundant groups of Old World rodents.
Several species are known to be involved in crop damage and in the epidemiology of …

The debate over species concepts has produced a huge body of literature on how species
can, may or should be delimited. By contrast, very few studies have documented how …

Identifying discontinuous entities within species complexes is a major topic in systematic
and evolutionary biology. Comprehensive inventories describing and identifying species …

Jansen, M., Bloch, R., Schulze, A. & Pfenninger, M.(2011). Integrative inventory of Bolivia's
lowland anurans reveals hidden diversity.—Zoologica Scripta, 40, 567–583. We conducted …