“…In the context of the rapid impoverishment of global biodiversity (Hallmann et al, 2017;Sánchez-Bayo & Wyckhuys, 2019;Van Klink et al, 2020), it is easy to understand the reason of the success of molecular taxonomy that, exploiting molecular information, has the potential to accelerate the identification of organisms and the discovery process of new taxa (Hebert & Gregory, 2005;Swartz, Mwale, & Hanner, 2008;Monaghan et al, 2009;Mutanen, Kaila, & Tabell, 2013;Gaytán et al, 2020). The DNA-based identification methods represented by DNA taxonomy, applicable also in DNA metabarcoding (Taberlet, Coissac, Pompanon, Brochmann, & Willerslev, 2012), stand out as widely used approaches for biodiversity surveys (e.g., Telfer et al, 2015;Pavan-Kumar, Gireesh-Babu, & Lakra, 2015;deWaard et al, 2019).…”