“…DNA barcoding, a powerful molecular tool, was created to overcome these barriers. Based on one or more standardized DNA regions-the mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase I gene (COI) in the case of animals , and chloroplastidial and nuclear regions for plants (CBOL Plant Working Group, 2009;Kress et al, 2005) and fungi (Schoch et al, 2012)-barcoding allows identifying the species with enough accuracy and is applicable to many areas such as tracking of adulterations in food (Dawnay et al, 2016), beverages (De Castro et al, 2017), medicinal herbs (Bansal et al, 2018), identification of flies in forensic area (Jang et al, 2019;Oliveira et al, 2017;Rolo et al, 2013) and species that cannot be determined morphologically (Klippel et al, 2015), among others.…”