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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF475 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD39 specimens
01Narrative
Abagrotis cupida, the Cupid dart or brown climbing cutworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1865. It is found in southern Canada and in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains (except the Deep South). The wingspan is 33–35 mm. Adults are on wing in late summer in one generation. In Alberta, the flight period ranges from August to September. Reported food plants include willow, cultivated apple, grape and peach trees.
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 cupida has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens39
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus39 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.
Where individuals differ — all 2 variable positions, in barcode order
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)0.14%
Haplotypes5
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.76%
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 type475 records
Wild obs. + sensor69
Museum / vouchered406
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO716 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 accuracy83% within 1 km
≤100 m 32≤1 km 8≤10 km 3>10 km 5
48 georeferenced · 21 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor69
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 accuracy36% within 1 km
≤100 m 7≤1 km 78≤10 km 131>10 km 17
233 georeferenced · 173 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence406
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 institutions5 of 11 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
196
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
96
New Haven, US
27
CUlocation not on record
24
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
11
Helsinki, FI
4
Washington, US
4
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
3
UDlocation not on record
3
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
2
Vernal, US
1
11 institutions · 371 of 406 vouchered records shown · 35 without an institution code
