The omission of critical data in the pursuit of 'revolutionary' methods to accelerate the description of species.

The omission of critical data in the pursuit of "revolutionary" methods to accelerate the description of species However, the latter authors failed to diagnose their 15 new I Zelomorpha i Ashmead, 1900 species from 51 out of 52 previously known species (only the type species was used in the analysis) and their three new I Hemichoma i Enderlein, 1920 species from any of the five previously known species. (2004) proposed to recognize ten species of skipper butterflies (genus I Astraptes i ) based on DNA characters and ecology and some morphological characters, but the species were not formally named until Brower (2010) described them based exclusively on unique mutations in the DNA barcode region. DNA barcoding is a rapid means to sort specimens into clusters, identify species and discover new ones (when a library of the relevant named species is already available), but does not overcome the bottleneck of the description process itself. [Extracted from the article]