Insects are crucial for ecosystem health but climate change and pesticide use are driving
massive insect decline. To mitigate this loss, we need new and effective monitoring …

Modern advances in DNA sequencing hold the promise of facilitating descriptions of new
organisms at ever finer precision but have come with challenges as the major Codes of …

For almost 30 years, there have been active discussions about the taxonomic impediment
and the challenge this represents to address the current human-induced biodiversity crisis …

Background DNA barcodes are a useful tool for discovering, understanding, and monitoring
biodiversity which are critical tasks at a time of rapid biodiversity loss. However, widespread …

The science of taxonomy, albeit being fundamental for all organismic research, has been
underfunded and undervalued for about two generations. We analyze how this could …

Abstract New, rapid, accurate, scalable, and cost-effective species discovery and
delimitation methods are needed for tackling “dark taxa,” here defined as groups for which …

Earth's biodiversity is still so poorly known that only about two million (Bánki et al., 2021) of
the estimated nine million or more eukaryotic species (Larsen et al., 2017; Mora et al., 2011) …

We present a new, online, open access portal to the geometrid moths of the world
(Lepidoptera: Geometridae). The portal provides access to the global database including …

Holistic insect monitoring needs scalable techniques to overcome taxon biases, determine
species abundances, and gather functional traits for all species. This requires that we …

A morphological and molecular analysis of Gryon Haliday (Platygastroidea, Scelionidae)
was conducted to provide a taxonomic and phylogenetic context for a species under …