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Nieukerken, E.J. van; Doorenweerd, C.; Hoare, R.J.B.; Davis, D.R.. |
A catalogue of all named Nepticulidae and Opostegidae is presented, including fossil species. The catalogue is simultaneously published online in the scratchpad http://nepticuloidea.info/ and in Catalogue of Life (http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/database/id/172). We provide a historical overview of taxonomic research on Nepticuloidea and a brief ‘state of the art’. A DNA barcode dataset with 3205 barcodes is made public at the same time, providing DNA barcodes of ca. 779 species, of which 2563 are identified as belonging to 444 validly published species. We recognise 862 extant and 18 fossil species of Nepticulidae in 22 extant genera and the fossil form genus Stigmellites. We count 192 valid Opostegidae species in 7 genera, without fossils. We... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Taxonomy; Leaf miners; Checklist; History; New synonyms; New combinations. |
Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/648831 |
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