Acraea admatha

Hewitson, 1865 · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Nymphalidae/Acraea

At a glance

Occurrence records221

Data sources7

Biological traits0

DNA specimens7

eDNA detections1

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Acraea admatha's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility221 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF221 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD7 specimens

01Narrative

Acraea admatha, the Hewitson's glassy acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, northern Angola and the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding7 specimens

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 Acraea admatha has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens7

BINs5

Marker genes1

eDNA detections1

Countries2

The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen

COI-5P658 bp consensus7 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. 79% of positions are identical in every specimen.

Where individuals differ — all 139 variable positions, in barcode order

4Tmostly conserved

22Avariable

25Tvariable

29Gvariable

31Avariable

38Gvariable

40Tvariable

43Avariable

46Amostly conserved

49Avariable

50Tvariable

52Avariable

56Tmostly conserved

68Amostly conserved

70Tvariable

82Cvariable

85Amostly conserved

88Amostly conserved

91Tvariable

92Tmostly conserved

100Avariable

106Cvariable

118Tmostly conserved

127Tvariable

130Avariable

133Cvariable

139Tvariable

142Tmostly conserved

163Tmostly conserved

169Avariable

181Amostly conserved

190Avariable

197Cvariable

199Avariable

202Tvariable

205Tmostly conserved

206Tvariable

212Tmostly conserved

214Amostly conserved

217Avariable

220Tvariable

223Tmostly conserved

226Tvariable

235Cvariable

238Tmostly conserved

250Tvariable

256Tvariable

262Amostly conserved

265Tvariable

266Cvariable

268Avariable

271Cmostly conserved

274Avariable

277Avariable

282Tmostly conserved

283Tmostly conserved

287Tmostly conserved

295Tvariable

298Avariable

307Avariable

312Avariable

316Amostly conserved

319Avariable

322Amostly conserved

328Amostly conserved

337Avariable

340Cmostly conserved

343Cvariable

346Avariable

347Cmostly conserved

349Tvariable

352Avariable

355Avariable

361Tmostly conserved

364Avariable

368Avariable

370Avariable

373Gvariable

374Gvariable

379Tmostly conserved

382Tvariable

385Tmostly conserved

400Cvariable

401Tvariable

407Tvariable

412Avariable

415Tvariable

421Cvariable

424Avariable

433Avariable

436Amostly conserved

445Tmostly conserved

451Amostly conserved

454Tmostly conserved

469Avariable

470Avariable

472Avariable

477Avariable

478Tmostly conserved

479Tvariable

484Avariable

487Tmostly conserved

490Cvariable

508Tmostly conserved

512Gvariable

514Avariable

517Avariable

520Avariable

529Tmostly conserved

530Tvariable

532Tvariable

533Cvariable

535Avariable

539Tvariable

541Avariable

542Tmostly conserved

547Tmostly conserved

548Tmostly conserved

550Avariable

553Avariable

+19 more variable positions not shown

AACTTTATATTTTATTTTTGGAATTTGAGCAGGAATAGTTGGAACATCATTAAGTTTATTAATTCGAACTGAATTAGGTAACCCAGGATC …

Variant network

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)10.3%

Haplotypes5

BINs5

Most divergent pair14.6%

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.

Acraea boopissame genus3.8%Acraea leucographasame genus5.5%Acraea endoscotasame genus5.5%Acraea igatisame genus6.5%Blenina albifasciasame order7.0%

Marker genes sequenced

★ 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 type221 records

Wild obs. + sensor3

Museum / vouchered218

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO272 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 accuracy67% within 1 km

≤100 m 1≤1 km 1≤10 km 1

3 georeferenced

Open the mapobservation + sensor3

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 accuracy0% within 1 km

≤10 km 6>10 km 7

13 georeferenced · 205 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence218

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 institutions2 of 6 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
African Butterfly Research Institutelocation not on record	118
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record	84
Cambridge, US	7
New Haven, US	6
Forest Insect Museum Ibadan (FIMI)location not on record	2
Research Collection of Gael Van De Weghelocation not on record	1

6 institutions · 218 of 218 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Acraea admatha 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

Detections DNA found1

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map1 country0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

Modelled climatemodelled

−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C

Temperature median23.9 °C 23.9–23.9

Seasonal swing summer↔winter2.00 °C

Max temp (day)28.2 °C

Min temp (night)20.7 °C

Precipitation286 mm/mo

Air humidity69.0 %

Moisture balance165 mm/mo

Vapour deficit913 Pa

Wind speed0.8 m/s

Cloud cover40.8 %

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche

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.

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