[Taxacom] comment on Sharkey et al.'s barcode-only descriptions

[Frank T. Krell]

Dear friends and colleagues,

Some of you might remember the parasitic wasp paper by Sharkey et al. describing a few hundred new species on the basis of barcodes (and medium-quality photographs) alone. We had posted a comment to this paper as a preprint on Zenodo and ResearchGate where it has attracted over 4500 views. Now the paper is properly published by Zootaxa open-access and available there or here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354238120_Is_it_time_to_describe_new_species_without_diagnoses_-A_comment_on_Sharkey_et_al_2021
Back to work (taxonomy that is…)

Frank

Dr. Frank-Thorsten Krell

Senior Curator of Entomology, Editor-in-Chief
Commissioner and Councillor, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Department of Zoology
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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