Overall DNA barcoding success
Our barcoding process resulted in full-length COI barcodes for 334 specimens (74.2 %), plus FC-only and BR-only barcodes for a further 17 (3.78 %) and 88 (19.6 %) specimens, respectively. In total, full-length or partial COI barcodes were recovered for 439 of 450 specimens (97.6 %) (Table 1, Figure 1). This included full-length / partial barcodes for 87.9 % / 9.85 % of earthworm specimens, 66.2 % / 31.9 % of Hymenoptera specimens, and 65.8 % / 30.7 % of Coleoptera specimens, respectively.