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Use of Cross-Taxon Congruence for Hotspot Identification at a Regional Scale Simone Fattorini1,2*, Roger L. H. Dennis3,4, Laurence M. Cook5 ˆ 1 Water Ecology Team, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy, 2 Azorean Biodiversity Group, Departamento de Ciencias ´ ´ Agrarias CITA-A, Universidade dos Ac¸ores, Pico da Urze, Angra do Heroısmo, Portugal, 3 Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4 Institute for Environment, Sustainability and Regeneration, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom, 5 Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Abstract One of the most debated problems in conservation biology is the use of indicator (surrogate) taxa to predict spatial patterns in other taxa. Cross-taxon congruence in species richness patterns is of paramount importance at regional scales to disclose areas of high conservation value that are significant in a broader biogeographical context but yet placed in the finer, more practical, political context of decision making. We analysed spatial patterns of diversity in six arthropod taxa from the Turkish fauna as a regional case study relevant to global conservation of the Mediterranean basin. Although we found high congruence in cross-taxon comparisons of species richness (0.241,r,0.645), hotspots of different groups show limited overlap, generally less than 50 per cent. The ability of a given taxon to capture diversity of other taxa was usually modest (on averag