Unprecedented rates of introduction and spread of non-native species pose burgeoning
challenges to biodiversity, natural resource management, regional economies, and human …

Insect fauna occupy the largest proportion of animal biodiversity on earth, but the
assessment or quantification in terms of species diversity is far from complete. Several …

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 …

The generalized mixed Yule‐coalescent (GMYC) model has become one of the most
popular approaches for species delimitation based on single‐locus data, and it is widely …

Motivation Butterflies represent a model in biology and a flagship group for invertebrate
conservation. We provide four new resources for the Western Palaearctic butterflies:(1) an …

Coalescent‐based species delimitation methods combine population genetic and
phylogenetic theory to provide an objective means for delineating evolutionarily significant …

This study examines the performance of DNA barcodes (mt cytochrome c oxidase 1 gene) in
the identification of 1004 species of Lepidoptera shared by two localities (Finland, Austria) …

Different distance-based threshold selection approaches were used to assess and compare
use of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region to distinguish among 901 Cortinarius …

DNA barcoding studies use Kimura's two‐parameter substitution model (K2P) as the de
facto standard for constructing genetic distance matrices. Distances generated under this …

How common are cryptic species-those overlooked because of their morphological
similarity? Despite its wide-ranging implications for biology and conservation, the answer …