Sharpening the DNA barcoding tool through a posteriori taxonomic validation: The case of Longitarsus flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

• Daniele Salvi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniele Salvi, Emanuele Berrilli

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Coppito, L’Aquila, Italy, CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3804-2690

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• Emanuele Berrilli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniele Salvi, Emanuele Berrilli

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: emanuele.berrilli@graduate.univaq.it

  Affiliation Department of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Coppito, L’Aquila, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8081-8600

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• Paola D’Alessandro,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Coppito, L’Aquila, Italy

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• Maurizio Biondi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Coppito, L’Aquila, Italy

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