Validating taxonomic identifications in entomological research

We surveyed the treatment of taxonomic information in 567 papers published in nine entomological journals in 2016. The proportion of papers that provide taxonomic data in sufficient detail to permit precise validation of taxonomic identifications is vanishingly small: most did not cite identification methods, most did not state whether identified material had been vouchered, and taxon concepts were almost universally absent in non‐taxonomic...