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Occurrence & distributionGBIF456 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD3 specimens
01Narrative
Acleros mackenii, the Macken's skipper or Macken's dart, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Western, Eastern and Southern Africa. The wingspan is 27–32 mm for males and 29–33 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round but are more common in late summer, autumn and winter than in the hotter midsummer months. The larvae feed on Rhus species (including Rhus corarius) and Acridocarpus species (including Acridocarpus smeathmanni).
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 Acleros mackenii has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens3
BINs2
Marker genes1
Countries3
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus3 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. 94% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 42 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)4.3%
Haplotypes3
BINs2
Most divergent pair6.1%
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 type456 records
Wild obs. + sensor234
Museum / vouchered222
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO712 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 accuracy90% within 1 km
≤100 m 102≤1 km 67≤10 km 14>10 km 5
188 georeferenced · 46 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor234
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 accuracy11% within 1 km
≤1 km 1≤10 km 4>10 km 4
9 georeferenced · 213 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence222
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 institutions4 of 7 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record
177
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record
24
Cape Town, ZA
8
Cambridge, US
5
Helsinki, FI
2
New Haven, US
1
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciêncialocation not on record
1
7 institutions · 218 of 222 vouchered records shown · 4 without an institution code
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GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗