Acronicta cuspis, the large dagger, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed through most of Europe, Northern Africa (Morocco), the European part of Russia, the Caucasus, the Russian Far East (Primorye, southern Khabarovsk, southern Amur region), southern Siberia, Transcaucasia, central Asia, China, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu) and the Korean Peninsula.
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 cuspis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens14
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections12
Countries4
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus11 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)0.12%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.30%
EuropeOther
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 type9 101 records
Wild obs. + sensor6 867
Museum / vouchered2 065
Other169
Origin
Native171
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO7 780 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 accuracy63% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 568≤1 km 1 633≤10 km 2 355>10 km 114
6 670 georeferenced · 197 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor6 867
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 accuracy56% within 1 km
≤100 m 655≤1 km 383≤10 km 744>10 km 56
1 838 georeferenced · 227 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 065
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 institutions16 of 38 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
643
Helsinki, FI
491
Tartu, EE
105
Zürich, CH
54
Philadelphia, US
53
ZMAAlocation not on record
45
Salzburg, AT
40
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
24
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
20
Tallinn, EE
19
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
18
DABUHlocation not on record
18
Bern, CH
17
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
14
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
13
UMUlocation not on record
12
Geneva, CH
10
Dhaka, BD
9
Paro, BT
8
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
8
Glarus, CH
7
Kuopio, FI
7
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
6
Frauenfeld, CH
5
SFRAlocation not on record
5
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
5
Metsähallituslocation not on record
4
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeumlocation not on record
4
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
4
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
3
Podgorica, ME
3
ZSMlocation not on record
3
ННПМ НАНУlocation not on record
3
Winterthur, CH
2
Toyota city nature sanctuarylocation not on record
2
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
2
MZLUlocation not on record
2
Rovaniemi, FI
1
38 institutions · 1 689 of 2 065 vouchered records shown · 376 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA12 detections
Where the DNA of Acronicta cuspis 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 found12
Studies independent surveys1
Countries4
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 12 detections have coordinates
Open the map4 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 median15.9 °C 13.5–16.8
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.8 °C
Max temp (day)19.3 °C 16.0–21.0
Min temp (night)11.1 °C 7.80–14.9
Precipitation96.3 mm/mo 48.7–155
Air humidity60.2 % 58.5–63.0
Moisture balance-19.5 mm/mo -73.0–46.7
Vapour deficit707 Pa 607–795
Wind speed2.50 m/s 1.70–3.20
Cloud cover38.9 % 34.1–44.4
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 10 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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility9 101 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI12 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics14 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗