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Table 1 Summary of specimens included in the Churchill Coleoptera barcode library

From: The diversity and biogeography of the Coleoptera of Churchill: insights from DNA barcoding

Family

Number of genera*

Provisional species richness

Number of named species

Number of individual barcodes (≥300 bp)

  

(named species plus MOTUs)

  

Bostrichidae**

0

0

0

0

Brachyceridae

1

1

0

1

Buprestidae

3

3

3

4

Byrrhidae

2

6

3

12

Cantharidae

2

6

0

36

Carabidae

21

52

46

778

Cerambycidae

5

5

5

12

Chrysomelidae

9

10

4

198

Cleridae

0

1

0

1

Coccinellidae

8

12

6

63

Cryptophagidae

2

7

0

49

Cucujidae

1

1

1

1

Curculionidae

10

15

10

46

Dytiscidae

17

63

52

1338

Elateridae

6

10

8

58

Elmidae

1

1

1

1

Gyrinidae

1

9

7

124

Haliplidae

1

5

3

44

Heteroceridae

1

1

1

5

Hydraenidae**

0

0

0

0

Hydrophilidae

5

11

8

84

Lampyridae

1

1

1

13

Latridiidae

2

2

0

6

Leiodidae

3

10

2

39

Melyridae

0

2

0

5

Mordellidae

0

2

0

2

Ptiliidae

0

2

0

3

Scarabaeidae

2

2

2

4

Scirtidae

1

3

2

72

Scraptiidae

0

1

0

4

Silphidae

2

3

3

35

Sphindidae

0

1

0

6

Staphylinidae

22

54

16

159

Total

129

302

184

3203

  1. *Minimum number, as 123 specimens were identified to family level only.
  2. **Family collected in Churchill but failed to yield a successful barcode sequence.