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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF48 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD14 specimens
01Narrative
Achaea praestans, the orange-bordered achaea, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found in South Africa, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.afromoths It has a wingspan of 54 mm.
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 Achaea praestans has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens14
BINs3
Marker genes1
Countries4
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P656 bp consensus14 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. 96% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 24 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)1.4%
Haplotypes5
BINs3
Most divergent pair2.0%
Africa
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 type48 records
Wild obs. + sensor27
Museum / vouchered21
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO116 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 accuracy88% within 1 km
≤100 m 9≤1 km 5≤10 km 1>10 km 1
16 georeferenced · 11 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor27
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 accuracy100% within 1 km
≤1 km 6
6 georeferenced · 15 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence21
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 institutions1 of 5 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseillelocation not on record
6
National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record
6
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record
4
ZSMlocation not on record
1
Tartu, EE
1
5 institutions · 18 of 21 vouchered records shown · 3 without an institution code
