Acronicta alni, the alder moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe (from southern Fennoscandia to Spain, Italy and the Balkans), Turkey, the European part of Russia and the neighbouring countries, the Caucasus, the Ural, southern Siberia, Transbaikalia, the Russian Far East (Primorye, Sakhalin, southern Kuriles, Khabarovsk and the Amur region), China, Japan (Hokkaido and Honshu) and the Korean Peninsula. ''Acronicta alni'' Caterpillar Caterpillar on leaf Young larva at the "bird dirt" stage and final instar larva (figs.1,1a,1b)
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 Acronicta alni has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens58
BINs2
Marker genes1
eDNA detections57
Countries12
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus58 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 3 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)0.59%
Haplotypes23
BINs2
Most divergent pair10.2%
EuropeAsiaOther
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
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualAcronicta alni 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
Genome size≈470 370 600 bp assembly estimate
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).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
THIS GENOME Acronicta alni0.47 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
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.
Assembly levelChromosome
Completeness98.8% BUSCO
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type33 725 records
Wild obs. + sensor29 064
Museum / vouchered4 413
Other248
Origin
Native1 668
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO40 940 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 accuracy31% within 1 km
≤100 m 5 637≤1 km 3 037≤10 km 18 931>10 km 171
27 776 georeferenced · 1 288 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor29 064
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 accuracy45% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 083≤1 km 775≤10 km 2 135>10 km 91
4 084 georeferenced · 329 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence4 413
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 institutions24 of 64 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
DanishLepidopterologicalSocietylocation not on record
1 544
Helsinki, FI
352
Zürich, CH
255
Bern, CH
146
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
106
Salzburg, AT
100
Tartu, EE
92
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
73
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
66
Kuopio, FI
63
Glarus, CH
59
NHMOlocation not on record
51
Paro, BT
44
Dhaka, BD
43
Frauenfeld, CH
37
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
37
Philadelphia, US
37
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
36
Naturama Aargaulocation not on record
34
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
32
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
32
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
30
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
28
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
27
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
26
Geneva, CH
21
Sion, CH
19
DABUHlocation not on record
18
ZMAAlocation not on record
18
Nijmegen, NL
17
Fribourg, CH
17
Winterthur, CH
15
ZSMlocation not on record
14
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeumlocation not on record
14
Tallinn, EE
12
Metsähallituslocation not on record
11
MZLUlocation not on record
11
NCMGlocation not on record
11
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
9
CBDClocation not on record
8
SFRAlocation not on record
8
UMUlocation not on record
8
JP
7
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
7
Rovaniemi, FI
6
Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record
6
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
5
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
5
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
5
Toyota city nature sanctuarylocation not on record
4
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
4
South Kensington, GB
3
Iwate Prefectural Museumlocation not on record
2
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record
2
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
2
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
1
Podgorica, ME
1
МПХУlocation not on record
1
Radicondoli, IT
1
neflocation not on record
1
Stockholm, SE
1
Hiwa Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
ННПМ НАНУlocation not on record
1
New Haven, US
1
64 institutions · 3 648 of 4 413 vouchered records shown · 765 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA57 detections
Where the DNA of Acronicta alni 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 found57
Studies independent surveys1
Countries12
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 57 detections have coordinates
Open the map12 countries0
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 median13.9 °C 1.80–16.5
Seasonal swing summer↔winter19.1 °C
Max temp (day)18.0 °C 5.30–20.6
Min temp (night)8.70 °C -3.90–11.5
Precipitation81.8 mm/mo 53.4–146
Air humidity60.2 % 57.6–65.2
Moisture balance-22.0 mm/mo -63.9–55.8
Vapour deficit654 Pa 270–763
Wind speed3.40 m/s 2.40–4.80
Cloud cover38.9 % 34.2–51.7
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 53 detection points · 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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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility33 725 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI57 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics58 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
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