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- The study aims to clarify the size of Germany's insect diversity, focusing on challenging families of flies (Diptera) and wasps (Hymenoptera) that are not well understood.
- Utilizing over 48,000 DNA barcodes from flies collected in southern Germany, researchers assessed known species to estimate the number of undiscovered species in four difficult fly families: Cecidomyiidae, Chironomidae, Phoridae, and Sciaridae.
- The findings indicate that Germany potentially has between 1800-2200 undiscovered species in these families, suggesting that expanding the research to other regions could reveal even more biodiversity.
Article Abstract
Determining the size of the German insect fauna requires better knowledge of several megadiverse families of Diptera and Hymenoptera that are taxonomically challenging. This study takes the first step in assessing these "dark taxa" families and provides species estimates for four challenging groups of Diptera (Cecidomyiidae, Chironomidae, Phoridae, and Sciaridae). These estimates are based on more than 48,000 DNA barcodes (COI) from Diptera collected by Malaise traps that were deployed in southern Germany. We assessed the fraction of German species belonging to 11 fly families with well-studied taxonomy in these samples. The resultant ratios were then used to estimate the species richness of the four "dark taxa" families (DT families hereafter). Our results suggest a surprisingly high proportion of undetected biodiversity in a supposedly well-investigated country: at least 1800-2200 species await discovery in Germany in these four families. As this estimate is based on collections from one region of Germany, the species count will likely increase with expanded geographic sampling.
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