Lars Hendrich

TL;DR: A CO1 data set of aquatic predaceous diving beetles of the tribe Agabini is presented and it is shown that even if samples are collected to maximize the geographical coverage, up to 70 individuals are required to sample 95% of intraspecific variation, showing that the geographical scale of sampling has a critical impact on the global application of DNA barcoding.

TL;DR: This study provides the globally largest DNA barcode reference library for Coleoptera for 15 948 individuals belonging to 3514 well‐identified species (53% of the German fauna) with representatives from 97 of 103 families with a focus on Germany.

TL;DR: A meta-barcoding pipeline is developed to streamline the barcoding process and indicate that a fast, efficient and reliable analysis of next generation data from malaise trap samples can be achieved using this pipeline.

TL;DR: Cox1 sequence data are a powerful tool for large-scale species richness estimation, with a great potential for use in ecology and β-diversity studies and for setting conservation priorities, however, error rates can be high in individual lineages.

TL;DR: This study test the efficiency of DNA barcoding for true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), an ecological and economical highly important as well as morphologically diverse insect taxon, and highlights the urgent necessity of taxonomic revisions for various taxa of the Heterptera.