Table 2.

Characteristics of ITS2 barcode sequences.

Species	Constant Length (bp)	Aligned Length (bp)	Intra-Species Variability	Inter-Species Variability	Species-Specific Marker Nucleotide
					Indels	Substitutions
Ar. continentalis	391	394	0.0000 ± 0.0000	0.2634 ± 0.0104	3	51
An. biserrata	388	394	0.0063 ± 0.0115	0.1586 ± 0.0830	2	12
L. officinale	390	394	0.0000 ± 0.0000	0.1519 ± 0.0811	0	10
H. moellendorffii	389	394	0.0034 ± 0.0013	0.1550 ± 0.0693	0	15