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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF219 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD26 specimens
01Narrative
Abagrotis brunneipennis, the Yankee dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1875. It is found in North America from Newfoundland west to Vancouver Island, south to west central Oregon, Utah, Colorado and North Carolina. The wingspan is 33 –. Adults are on wing in August to September in one generation. The larvae feed on various woody plants, including Vaccinium. They also feed on fallen leaves during the winter.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Abagrotis brunneipennis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens26
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus25 specimens
ACGT
▸ drag or hover over the strip to read any position — letter and how much it varies
Violet ticks below the strip = positions where individuals differ; flat = the species' unchanging signature. 100% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Each circle is a barcode variant; bigger = more specimens, colour = region. Lines join the most similar variants and the tick marks count the mutations between them — a tight cluster is one “dialect”, a long line a more divergent lineage. Click a circle to list its actual specimens.
Diversity (π)0.20%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair2.3%
N.America
Closest relatives by DNA barcode
The species whose COI barcode is most similar to this one — a quick “who is this most like”. The percentage is how much the barcode differs; it approximates, but is not, the full evolutionary tree.
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★COI-5P
animal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type219 records
Wild obs. + sensor20
Museum / vouchered199
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO348 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy72% within 1 km
≤100 m 11≤1 km 2≤10 km 3>10 km 2
18 georeferenced · 2 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor20
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy62% within 1 km
≤100 m 4≤1 km 61≤10 km 25>10 km 15
105 georeferenced · 94 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence199
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions6 of 12 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
East Lansing, US
69
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
49
New Haven, US
28
St. Paul, US
12
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
7
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
5
Washington, US
4
Helsinki, FI
3
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
1
Vernal, US
1
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
1
Research Collection of Daniel Handfieldlocation not on record
1
12 institutions · 181 of 199 vouchered records shown · 18 without an institution code
