Figure 2

(A) Taxonomic composition of the reference database, displaying number of unique species for each order within Insecta, as well as for other classes of Arthropods. Number of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) from (B) mock communities and (C) field trap samples successfully assigned to taxonomic ranks for each locus using the Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) naïve Bayesian classifier and exact matching with reference sequences. (D) Taxonomic overlap between loci at the family, genus, and species level for all samples.