They further argued that misidentifications could lead to inadequate control measures with negative socioeconomic
implications. Threats of biodiversity loss induced by anthropogenic change, and the ongoing loss of taxonomic
expertise (known as the taxonomic impediment) (Hoagland 1995, House of Lords 2002, Wheeler et al. 2004) have
spurred the scientific community to search for faster methods for species identification (Cywinska et al. 2006;
Godfray 2002; Monaghan et al. 2005).