We present a new, online, open access portal to the geometrid moths of the world
(Lepidoptera: Geometridae). The portal provides access to the global database including …

Background More than 80% of all animal species remain unknown to science. Most of these
species live in the tropics and belong to animal taxa that combine small body size with high …

We review the current knowledge of the biodiversity of the ocean as well as the levels of
decline and threat for species and habitats. The lack of understanding of the distribution of …

Funding, training, permits—the three big challenges of taxonomy Page 1 Megataxa 001 (1):
049–052 https://www.mapress.com/j/mt/ Copyright © 2020 Magnolia Press Correspondence …

A recent paper (Sharkey et al. 2021a) describing 416 new species of Braconidae parasitoid
wasps (Hymenoptera) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica has reignited …

Studies found that rapid decline of biodiversity and ecosystems globally have adversely
affected an estimated 1.6 billion rural people whose livelihoods both directly and indirectly …

COI sequences were used as an initial clustering method to delimit putative species of the
genus Dudgeodes in the Philippines. An overview of the diagnostic characters of Philippine …

What we accept as the units to be classified is not just an expression of our current aims and
practices but will also impact further classificatory research. The launch of Megataxa invites …

The geologically‐complex Indo–Australian–Melanesian archipelago (IAMA) hosts
extraordinarily high levels of species richness and endemism and has long served as a …

Wallace's Line, located in the heart of the Indo‐Australian archipelago, has historically been
hypothesized to strongly inhibit dispersal. Taxa crossing this barrier are confronted with …