DNA barcodes successfully delimit morphospecies in a superdiverse insect genus

• Published in: Zoologica scripta Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 311 - 324
• Main Authors: Song, Chao, Lin, Xiao‐Long, Wang, Qian, Wang, Xin‐Hua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oslo Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.05.2018
• Subjects: Aquatic insects; Bar codes; Bayesian analysis; Clustering; COI sequences; Cryptic species; Cytochrome-c oxidase; Cytochromes; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Divergence; DNA; Gene sequencing; Morphology; morphospecies; MPTP; OTUs; Polypedilum; Probability theory; Species; species delimitation; Taxonomy; threshold

Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae), with 520 currently known species worldwide, can be extremely difficult to identify species level based on the morphology. We used 3,670 cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) barcodes to explore the efficiency of the COI barcodes to differentiate between sp...