A revision of Malagasy species of Anochetus mayr and Odontomachus latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

ABSTRACT: Species inventories are essential for documenting global diversity and generating necessary material for taxonomic study and conservation planning. However, for inventories to be immediately relevant, the taxonomic process must reduce the time to describe and identify specimens. To address these concerns for the inventory of arthropods across the Malagasy region, we present here a collaborative approach to taxonomy where collectors, morphologists and DNA barcoders using cytochrome c oxidase 1 (CO1) participate collectively in a team-driven taxonomic process. We evaluate the role of DNA barcoding as a tool to accelerate species identification and description. This revision is primarily based on arthropod surveys throughout the Malagasy region from 1992 to 2006. The revision is based on morp

SUBMITTER: Fisher BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2387237 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature