Caroline Chimeno‡, Stefan Schmidt‡, Hasmiandy Hamid§, Raden Pramesa Narakusumo|, Djunijanti Peggie|, Michael Balke‡, Bruno Cancian de Araujo‡¶Corresponding author: Caroline Chimeno ( chimeno@snsb.de ) © Caroline Chimeno, Stefan Schmidt, Hasmiandy Hamid, Raden Pramesa Narakusumo, Djunijanti Peggie, Michael Balke, Bruno Cancian de Araujo. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Chimeno C, Schmidt S, Hamid H, Narakusumo RP, Peggie D, Balke M, Cancian de Araujo B (2023) DNA barcoding data release for the Phoridae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Halimun-Salak National Park (Java, Indonesia). ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e105258 |  |
Launched in 2015, the large-scale initiative Indonesian Biodiversity Discovery and Information System (IndoBioSys) is a multidisciplinary German-Indonesian collaboration with the main goal of establishing a standardized framework for species discovery and all associated steps. One aspect of the project includes the application of DNA barcoding for species identification and biodiversity assessments. In this framework, we conducted a large-scale assessment of the insect fauna of the Mount Halimun-Salak National Park which is one of the largest tropical rain-forest ecosystems left in West Java. In this study, we present the results of processing 5,034 specimens of Phoridae (scuttle flies) via DNA barcoding. Despite limited sequencing success, we obtained more than 500 clusters using different algorithms (RESL, ASAP, SpeciesIdentifier). Moreover, Chao statistics indicated that we drastically undersampled all trap sites, implying that the true diversity of Phoridae is in fact much higher. With this data release, we hope to shed some light on the hidden diversity of this megadiverse group of flies.