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Speciation

The good, the bad and the boa: An unexpected new species of a true boa revealed by morphological and molecular evidence

Rodrigo Castellari Gonzalez, Lorena Corina Bezerra de Lima, Paulo Passos, Maria José J. Silva

published 17 Apr 2024

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Molecular identification of Hymenopteran insects collected by using Malaise traps from Hazarganji Chiltan National Park Quetta, Pakistan

Abid Hussain, Asmatullah Kakar, Mahrukh Naseem, Kashif Kamran, Zafar Ullah, Shehla Shehla, Muhammad Kashif Obaid, Nazeer Ahmed, Qaiser Khan, Iram Liaqat

published 10 Apr 2024

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Comparing modern identification methods for wild bees: Metabarcoding and image-based morphological taxonomic assignment

Cassandra D. Smith, Robert S. Cornman, Jennifer A. Fike, Johanna M. Kraus, Sara J. Oyler-McCance, Carrie E. Givens, Michelle L. Hladik, Mark W. Vandever, Dana W. Kolpin, Kelly L. Smalling

published 02 Apr 2024

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A DNA barcode library of Austrian geometridae (Lepidoptera) reveals high potential for DNA-based species identification

Benjamin Schattanek-Wiesmair, Peter Huemer, Christian Wieser, Wolfgang Stark, Axel Hausmann, Stephan Koblmüller, Kristina M. Sefc

published 11 Mar 2024

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New records of native and introduced fish species in a river basin of Western Ecuador, the Chocó-Darien Ecoregion, using DNA barcoding

Daniel Escobar Camacho, Karla S. Barragán, Juan M. Guayasamin, Gabriela Gavilanes, Andrea C. Encalada

published 08 Mar 2024

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Molecular and morphological data suggest a new species of big-eared bat (Vespertilionidae: Corynorhinus) endemic to northeastern Mexico

Issachar L. López-Cuamatzi, Jorge Ortega, Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Gerardo Zúñiga, M. Cristina MacSwiney G.

published 21 Feb 2024

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Molecular and morphological characterisation of larvae of the genus Diamesa Meigen, 1835 (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Alpine streams (Ötztal Alps, Austria)

Martin Dvorak, Isabel L. Dittmann, Veronika Pedrini-Martha, Ladislav Hamerlík, Peter Bitušík, Evzen Stuchlik, Daniel Vondrák, Leopold Füreder, Reinhard Lackner

published 15 Feb 2024

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Convergent and environmentally associated chromatic polymorphism in Bryconops Kner, 1858 (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Iguanodectidae)

Andressa S. Gonçalves, André L. Netto-Ferreira, Samantha C. Saldanha, Ana C. G. Rocha, Suellen M. Gales, Derlan J. F. Silva, Daniel C. Carvalho, João B. L. Sales, Tibério C. T. Burlamaqui, Jonathan S. Ready

published 15 Feb 2024

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Phylogenetic relationships and genetic differentiation of two Salamandrella species as revealed via COI gene from Northeastern China

Wanli Liu, Zhuo Duan, Dingcheng Wang, Wenge Zhao, Peng Liu

published 14 Feb 2024

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Exophiala chapopotensis sp. nov., an extremotolerant black yeast from an oil-polluted soil in Mexico; phylophenetic approach to species hypothesis in the Herpotrichiellaceae family

Martín R. Ide-Pérez, Ayixon Sánchez-Reyes, Jorge Luis Folch-Mallol, María del Rayo Sánchez-Carbente

published 14 Feb 2024

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DNA barcoding for the assessment of marine and coastal fish diversity from the Coast of Mozambique

Valdemiro Muhala, Aurycéia Guimarães-Costa, Isadola Eusébio Macate, Luan Pinto Rabelo, Adam Rick Bessa-Silva, Luciana Watanabe, Gisele Damasceno dos Santos, Luísa Sambora, Marcelo Vallinoto, Iracilda Sampaio

published 06 Feb 2024

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Bridging the gap: A new species of arboreal Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from the Northern Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico

Adam G. Clause, Roberto Luna-Reyes, Oscar M. Mendoza-Velázquez, Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca, Israel Solano-Zavaleta

published 03 Jan 2024

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Species delimitation by DNA barcoding reveals undescribed diversity in Stelliferinae (Sciaenidae)

Tárcia Fernanda da Silva, Iracilda Sampaio, Arturo Angulo, Omar Domínguez-Domínguez, Jonas Andrade-Santos, Aurycéia Guimarães-Costa, Simoni Santos

published 28 Dec 2023

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