To cite insect in publications use:

Wilkinson SP, Stat M, Bunce M, Davy SK (2018). “Taxonomic identification of environmental DNA with informatic sequence classification trees.” PeerJ Preprints, 6, e26812v1. doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.26812v1, https://peerj.com/preprints/26812/.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {Taxonomic identification of environmental DNA with
      informatic sequence classification trees.},
    author = {Shaun P. Wilkinson and Michael Stat and Michael Bunce and
      Simon K. Davy},
    url = {https://peerj.com/preprints/26812/},
    year = {2018},
    journal = {PeerJ Preprints},
    volume = {6},
    pages = {e26812v1},
    doi = {10.7287/peerj.preprints.26812v1},
  }