Abax parallelepipedus
(Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783) · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Abax parallelepipedus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility27 846 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI68 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics75 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Abax parallelepipedus is a species of ground beetle native to Europe and the Nearctic. In Europe, it is found in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, mainland Denmark, Estonia, mainland France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, mainland Italy, Kaliningrad, Latvia (doubtful), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Moldova, mainland Norway, Poland, central and southern Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, mainland Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Diet & foraging2
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 Abax parallelepipedus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ 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.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
The complete instruction manual Abax parallelepipedus carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 355×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database · GoaT · Tree of Sex Database · GoaT · Coleoptera Karyotype Database
2n 363×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database · GoaT · Tree of Sex Database · TreeOfSex · invert
diploid1×GoaT · Coleoptera Karyotype Database
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
Record type27 846 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
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.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions10 of 34 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Leuphanalocation not on record | 135 |
| Salzburg, AT | 77 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 74 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 21 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 14 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 14 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 14 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 13 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 13 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 10 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 10 |
| Tilburg, NL | 8 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 8 |
| Tartu, EE | 8 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 8 |
| NCMGlocation not on record | 8 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 7 |
| Olocation not on record | 6 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 6 |
| Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record | 5 |
| South Kensington, GB | 5 |
| SGAV-and-NHMDlocation not on record | 3 |
| Helsinki, FI | 2 |
| Ugentlocation not on record | 2 |
| University Park, US | 2 |
| Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record | 2 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record | 2 |
| Trondheim, NO | 2 |
| Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Rouen, ECODIV Laboratorylocation not on record | 1 |
| Tromsø, NO | 1 |
| Private Collection of Dominik Rabllocation not on record | 1 |
| DFlocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Abax parallelepipedus was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.