A revolutionary protocol to describe understudied hyperdiverse taxa and overcome the taxonomic impediment

Sarah Meierotto; Michael J. Sharkey; Daniel H. Janzen; Winnie Hallwachs; Paul D. N. Hebert; Eric G. Chapman; M. Alex Smith

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Michael J. Sharkey, Erika M. Tucker, Austin Baker, M. Alex Smith, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Ramya Manjunath, Paul Hebert, Winnie Hallwachs, Daniel Janzen (2022)
More discussion of minimalist species descriptions and clarifying some misconceptions contained in Meier et al. 2021. ZooKeys 1110: 135.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1110.85491

Tomas Roslin, Panu Somervuo, Mikko Pentinsaari, Paul D. N. Hebert, Jireh Agda, Petri Ahlroth, Perttu Anttonen, Jouni Aspi, Gergin Blagoev, Santiago Blanco, Dean Chan, Tom Clayhills, Jeremy deWaard, Stephanie deWaard, Tyler Elliot, Riikka Elo, Sami Haapala, Eero Helve, Jari Ilmonen, Petri Hirvonen, Chris Ho, Juhani Itämies, Vladislav Ivanov, Jevgeni Jakovlev, Aino Juslén, Reijo Jussila, Jere Kahanpää, Lauri Kaila, Jari‐PekkaKaitila Jari‐PekkaKaitila, Ari Kakko, Iiro Kakko, Ali Karhu, Sami Karjalainen, Jostein Kjaerandsen, Janne Koskinen, Erkki M. Laasonen, Leena Laasonen, Erkka Laine, Petri Lampila, Valerie Levesque‐Beaudin, Liuqiong Lu, Meri Lähteenaro, Pekka Majuri, Sampsa Malmberg, Ramya Manjunath, Petri Martikainen, Jaakko Mattila, Jaclyn McKeown, Petri Metsälä, Margarita Miklasevskaja, Meredith Miller, Renee Miskie, Arto Muinonen, Veli‐MattiMukkala Veli‐MattiMukkala, Suresh Naik, Nadia Nikolova, Kari Nupponen, Otso Ovaskainen, Ika Österblad, Lauri Paasivirta, Timo Pajunen, Petri Parkko, Juho Paukkunen, Ritva Penttinen, Kate Perez, Jaakko Pohjoismäki, Sean Prosser, Martti Raekunnas, Miduna Rahulan, Meeri Rannisto, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Pekka Raukko, Aki Rinne, Teemu Rintala, Susana Miranda Romo, Jukka Salmela, Juha Salokannel, Riitta Savolainen, Leif Schulman, Pasi Sihvonen, Dina Soliman, Jayme Sones, Claudia Steinke, Gunilla Ståhls, Jukka Tabell, Mikko Tiusanen, Gergely Várkonyi, Eero J. Vesterinen, Esko Viitanen, Veli Vikberg, Matti Viitasaari, Jussi Vilen, Connor Warne, Catherine Wei, Kaj Winqvist, Evgeny Zakharov, Marko Mutanen (2022)
A molecular‐based identification resource for the arthropods of Finland. Molecular Ecology Resources 22: 803.

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Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez, Martha Valdez-Moreno (2023)
Relevance of DNA barcodes for biomonitoring of freshwater animals. Frontiers in Environmental Science 11: .

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Alireza Zamani, Zdenek Faltýnek Fric, Hugo F. Gante, Tapani Hopkins, Alexander B. Orfinger, Mark D. Scherz, Alena Sucháčková Bartoňová, Davide Dal Pos (2022)
DNA barcodes on their own are not enough to describe a species. Systematic Entomology 47: 385.

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Uda Gedara Sasanka Lakmali Ranasinghe, Jonas Eberle, Jana Thormann, Claudia Bohacz, Suresh P. Benjamin, Dirk Ahrens (2022)
Multiple species delimitation approaches with COI barcodes poorly fit each other and morphospecies – An integrative taxonomy case of Sri Lankan Sericini chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Ecology and Evolution 12: .

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Mostafa Ghafouri Moghaddam, Diana Carolina Arias-Penna, Minoo Heidari Latibari, Buntika A. Butcher (2023)
Name game conundrum: identical specific epithets in Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys 1183: 139.

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Alireza Zamani, Davide Dal Pos, Zdenek Faltýnek Fric, Alexander B. Orfinger, Mark D. Scherz, Alena Sucháčková Bartoňová, Hugo F. Gante (2022)
The future of zoological taxonomy is integrative, not minimalist. Systematics and Biodiversity 20: 1.

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André Schütte, Peter Stüben, Jonas Astrin (2023)
Molecular Weevil Identification Project: A thoroughly curated barcode release of 1300 Western Palearctic weevil species (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea). Biodiversity Data Journal 11: .

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Alireza Zamani, Varpu Vahtera, Ilari Eerikki Sääksjärvi, Mark D. Scherz (2021)
The omission of critical data in the pursuit of ‘revolutionary’ methods to accelerate the description of species. Systematic Entomology 46: 1.

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Jelisaveta Čkrkić, Andjeljko Petrović, Korana Kocić, Milana Mitrović, Nickolas G. Kavallieratos, Cornelis van Achterberg, Paul D. N. Hebert, Željko Tomanović (2020)
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Luiza Figueiredo Camargo, Eduardo Mitio Shimbori, Angélica Maria Penteado-Dias (2022)
Uncovering the Brazilian Orthocentrinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) fauna: high diversity at high elevation. The Canadian Entomologist 154: .

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Frank E. Rheindt, Patrice Bouchard, Richard L. Pyle, Francisco Welter-Schultes, Erna Aescht, Shane T. Ahyong, Alberto Ballerio, Thierry Bourgoin, Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Dmitry Dmitriev, Neal Evenhuis, Mark J. Grygier, Mark S. Harvey, Maurice Kottelat, Nikita Kluge, Frank-T. Krell, Jun-ichi Kojima, Sven O. Kullander, Paulo Lucinda, Christopher H. C. Lyal, Cristina Luisa Scioscia, Daniel Whitmore, Douglas Yanega, Zhi-Qiang Zhang, Hong-Zhang Zhou, Thomas Pape (2023)
Tightening the requirements for species diagnoses would help integrate DNA-based descriptions in taxonomic practice. PLOS Biology 21: e3002251.

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Michael Sharkey, Brian Brown, Austin Baker, Marko Mutanen (2021)
Response to Zamani et al. (2020): The omission of critical data in the pursuit of “revolutionary” methods to accelerate the description of species. ZooKeys 1033: 191.

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Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo, Norma Emilia González-Vallejo (2020)
Revisiones taxonómicas, ciencia de frontera y programas nacionales. Biología y Sociedad 3: 26.

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Paul H Williams (2022)
Novel splitting/lumping index reflects the history of species concepts applied to bumblebees (Insecta: Apidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196: 704.

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Ivan Löbl, Bernhard Klausnitzer, Matthias Hartmann, Frank-Thorsten Krell (2023)
The Silent Extinction of Species and Taxonomists—An Appeal to Science Policymakers and Legislators. Diversity 15: 1053.

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Morgan R. Gostel, W. John Kress (2022)
The Expanding Role of DNA Barcodes: Indispensable Tools for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation. Diversity 14: 213.

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Lyubomir Penev, Achille Casale, Yordanka Banalieva (2021)
Additions to the lists of publications of Terry Erwin, taxa described by him and named after him after 2015. ZooKeys 1044: 1037.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1044.69603

Jose L. Fernandez-Triana (2022)
Turbo taxonomy approaches: lessons from the past and recommendations for the future based on the experience with Braconidae (Hymenoptera) parasitoid wasps. ZooKeys 1087: 199.

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D. Christopher Darling, Nikolai J. Tatarnic (2020)
On the horns of a dilemma: toward a better understanding of theMonaconspecies (Hymenoptera: Perilampidae) of Borneo. Journal of Natural History 54: 723.

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Jhoana M. Garces, Michel Sartori, Hendrik Freitag (2020)
Integrative taxonomy of the genus Dudgeodes Sartori, 2008 (Insecta, Ephemeroptera, Teloganodidae) from the Philippines with description of new species and supplementary descriptions of Southeast Asian species. ZooKeys 910: 93.

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Ilgoo Kang, James B. Whitfield, Brittany E. Owens, Junyan Chen (2022)
Resurrection of Neocardiochiles Szépligeti, 1908 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cardiochilinae) with descriptions of five new species from the Neotropical region. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 91: 41.

DOI: 10.3897/jhr.91.84937

Jason E. Bond, Rebecca L. Godwin, Jordan D. Colby, Lacie G. Newton, Xavier J. Zahnle, Ingi Agnarsson, Chris A. Hamilton, Matjaž Kuntner (2021)
Improving Taxonomic Practices and Enhancing Its Extensibility—An Example from Araneology. Diversity 14: 5.

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Susan R. Kennedy, Stefan Prost, Isaac Overcast, Andrew J. Rominger, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Henrik Krehenwinkel (2020)
High-throughput sequencing for community analysis: the promise of DNA barcoding to uncover diversity, relatedness, abundances and interactions in spider communities. Development Genes and Evolution 230: 185.

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Marie Pollmann, Denise Kuhn, Christian König, Irmela Homolka, Sina Paschke, Ronja Reinisch, Anna Schmidt, Noa Schwabe, Justus Weber, Yuval Gottlieb, Johannes Luitpold Maria Steidle (2023)
New species based on the biological species concept within the complex of Lariophagus distinguendus (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae), a parasitoid of household pests. Ecology and Evolution 13: .

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Tesfu Fekensa Tujuba, Axel Hausmann, Andrea Sciarretta (2020)
Revision of the Orbamia Herbulot, 1966 group of genera with description of two new genera, ten new species, and two new subspecies (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae, Cassymini). ZooKeys 929: 53.

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Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Guillermo Pereira, Roger Blanco, Alejandro Masis, Maria Marta Chavarria, Felipe Chavarria, Adrian Guadamuz, Magaly Araya, M. Alex Smith, Johan Valerio, Hartman Guido, Eddy Sanchez, Sergio Bermudez, Kate Perez, Ramya Manjunath, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Brianne St. Jacques, Megan Milton, Jeremy R. DeWaard, Evgeny Zakharov, Suresh Naik, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Paul D.N. Hebert, Motohiro Hasegawa (2020)
Using DNA-barcoded Malaise trap samples to measure impact of a geothermal energy project on the biodiversity of a Costa Rican old-growth rain forest. Genome 63: 407.

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Brian V. Brown, Maria A. Wong (2020)
Identification ofMegaselia(Diptera: Phoridae) species using wing vein landmarking. Journal of Natural History 54: 2513.

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Vasily V. Grebennikov (2021)
Sky islands of the Cameroon Volcanic Line support the westernmost clade of five new Typoderus weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 79: 57.

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Brian V Brown, Emily A Hartop, Maria A Wong, Brian Wiegmann (2022)
Sixteen in One: White-Belted Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) From the New World Challenge Species Concepts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6: .

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Lina Bernaola, Molly Darlington, Kadie Britt, Patricia Prade, Morgan Roth, Adrian Pekarcik, Michelle Boone, Dylan Ricke, Anh Tran, Joanie King, Kelly Carruthers, Morgan Thompson, John J Ternest, Sarah E Anderson, Scott W Gula, Kayleigh C Hauri, Jacob R Pecenka, Sajjan Grover, Heena Puri, Surabhi Gupta Vakil, Christos Athanassiou (2021)
Technological Advances to Address Current Issues in Entomology: 2020 Student Debates. Journal of Insect Science 21: .

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Kamil Hupało, Denis Copilaș‐Ciocianu, Florian Leese, Martina Weiss (2023)
Morphology, nuclear SNPs and mate selection reveal that COI barcoding overestimates species diversity in a Mediterranean freshwater amphipod by an order of magnitude. Cladistics 39: 129.

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So Shimizu, Gavin R. Broad, Kaoru Maeto (2020)
Integrative taxonomy and analysis of species richness patterns of nocturnal Darwin wasps of the genus Enicospilus Stephens (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae) in Japan. ZooKeys 990: 1.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.990.55542