Roughly 18,000 species are described annually as new to science, while estimated
extinction rates are comparable to or even exceeding these new discoveries. Considering …

Situated in the Eastern section of the European Alps, Austria encompasses a great diversity
of different habitat types, ranging from alpine to lowland Pannonian ecosystems, and a …

Aeshnidae Rambur, 1842 are impressive large insects distributed worldwide. Currently, over
500 species are recognized. Nevertheless, the phylogeny of this family is not completely …

DNA barcoding is an essential tool in modern biodiversity sciences. Despite considerable
work to barcode the tree of life, many groups, including insects, remain partially or totally …

The essential key to routine molecular species identification (DNA barcoding/metabarcoding
) is the existence of an error-free DNA barcode reference library providing full coverage of all …

Odonates (Insecta: Odonata) are important insects in the food chains of freshwater
environments around the world, being used as a model species for areas of behavior and …

Monitoring of odonates has become an important instrument for ecological status
assessment of (semi-) aquatic habitats. Besides information on presence and abundance …

The taxonomic status of the Central Asian damselfly Calopteryx samarcandica was
determined on the basis of molecular and phenotypic data from the Kugitang Mountains, SE …

We analysed COI and ITS sequences from a total of 69 European Pyrrhosoma nymphula
(Sulzer, 1776) and three P. elisabethae Schmidt, 1948 to explore species boundaries and …

Aim Species have different distribution patterns across the globe and among
biogeographical regions. The Nearctic and Palaearctic regions share lineages because of …