The magnitude of cryptic insect diversity in one tropical rainforest

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/25:43910536

Result on the web

<a href="https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/icad.12861" target="_blank" >https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/icad.12861</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/icad.12861" target="_blank" >10.1111/icad.12861</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The magnitude of cryptic insect diversity in one tropical rainforest

Original language description

Cryptic species represent significant entities in conservation planning and are common among tropical insects. Many studies focusing on cryptic species have been restricted to a narrow taxon and it is not clear whether some insect clades or assemblages may have a greater propensity for cryptic speciation than others. Here, we contrast cryptic diversity among 22 insect assemblages surveyed on Barro Colorado Island (BCI), a tropical rainforest in Panama. Cryptic species were defined as externally indistinguishable from their sister species but with a different barcode index number. We detected 214 cryptic species out of a total of 2006 species studied (10.6%). The percentage of cryptic species varied greatly among assemblages (0%-19%), with half of the assemblages devoid of cryptic species and the highest proportions of cryptics in Pieridae and Formicidae. The percentage of cryptic species was weakly influenced by phylogeny, and it was best explained by the local number of species and an index of taxonomic knowledge. Cryptic species were distinguished by an average distance divergence in sequence of 9%, but their ecological characteristics remain unclear. Asymptotic estimates indicated that 11.4% of species studied on BCI may be cryptic. Since many of the species-rich insect assemblages occurring on BCI were not considered in this study, this estimate probably represents a lower bound to the true cryptic insect richness on BCI. This significant contribution to biodiversity should not be ignored and, because of apparent low population levels, may be particularly vulnerable to habitat loss and climate change.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA25-17499S" target="_blank" >GA25-17499S: Are insect population dynamics driven by bottom-up resource availability, top-down predation, or climate variation in a tropical rainforest?</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Insect Conservation and Diversity

ISSN

1752-458X

e-ISSN

1752-4598

Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

1163-1174

UT code for WoS article

001530128700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105010845643