@article {22807, title = {What happens to the traditional taxonomy when a well-known tropical saturniid moth fauna is DNA barcoded?}, journal = {Invertebrate Systematics}, volume = {26}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, pages = {478-505}, chapter = {478}, abstract = {

\"Biodiversity of tropical Saturniidae, as measured through traditionally described and catalogued species, strongly risks pooling cryptic species under one name. We examined the DNA barcodes, morphology, habitus and ecology of 32 \‘well known\’ species of dry forest saturniid moths from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) in north-western Costa Rica and found that they contain as many as 49 biological entities that are probably separate species. The most prominent splitting of traditional species \– Eacles imperialis, Automeris zugana, Automeris tridens, Othorene verana, Hylesia dalina, Dirphia avia, Syssphinx molina, Syssphinx colla, and Syssphinx quadrilineata \– is where one species was believed to breed in dry forest and rain forest, but is found to be two biological entities variously distinguishable by DNA barcodes and morphology, habitus, and/or microecological distribution. This implies that \‘standard\’ biological information about each traditional species may be an unconscious mix of interspecific information, and begs renewed DNA barcoding, closer attention to so-called intraspecific variation, and increased museum collection and curation of specimens from more individual and ecologically characterised sites \– as well as eventually more species descriptions. Simultaneously, this inclusion of sibling species as individual entities in biodiversity studies, rather than pooled under one traditional name, reduces the degree of ecological and evolutionary generalisation perceived by the observer.\"

}, keywords = {ADULT MORPHOLOGY, AUTOMERIS, BARCODE GAP, BARCODING, CAIO, COI, COSTA RICA, DIRPHIA, DNA, EACLES, HYLESIA, MALE GENITALIA, OTHORENE, PERIPHOBA, PTILOSCOLA, SATURNIIDAE, SPECIES DELIMITATION, SYSSPHINX, TAXONOMY}, issn = {1445-5226}, doi = {10.1071/is12038}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/is12038}, author = {Janzen, D.H. and Hallwachs, W. and Harvey, D.J. and Darrow, K. and Rougerie, R. and Hajibabaei, M. and Smith, M.A. and Bertrand, C. and Gamboa, I.C. and Espinoza, B. and Sullivan, J.B. and Deca{\"e}ns, T. and Herbin, D. and Chavarria, L.F. and Franco, R. and Cambronero, H. and Rios, S. and Quesada, F. and Pereira, G. and Vargas, J. and Guadamuz, A. and Espinoza, R. and Hernandez, J. and Rios, L. and Cantillano, E. and Moraga, R. and Moraga, C. and Rios, P. and Rios, M. and Calero, R. and Martinez, D. and Brice{\~n}o, D. and Carmona, M. and Apu, E. and Aragon, K. and Uma{\~n}a, C. and Perez, J. and Cordoba, A. and Uma{\~n}a, P. and Sihezar, G. and Espinoza, O. and Cano, C. and Araya, E. and Garcia, D. and Ramirez, H. and Pereira, M. and Cortez, J. and Pereira, M. and Medina, W. and Hebert, P.D.N.} }