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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF232 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD16 specimens
01Narrative
Acronicta exilis, the exiled dagger moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species is found in North America, including Iowa, New York, Maryland Arkansas and Delaware. The larvae feed on Quercus species.
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 exilis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens16
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries1
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus16 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. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 6 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)0.15%
Haplotypes6
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.46%
N.America
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 type232 records
Wild obs. + sensor45
Museum / vouchered187
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO440 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 accuracy74% within 1 km
≤100 m 21≤1 km 7≤10 km 7>10 km 3
38 georeferenced · 7 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor45
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 accuracy25% within 1 km
≤100 m 5≤1 km 11≤10 km 44>10 km 4
64 georeferenced · 123 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence187
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 institutions6 of 12 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Mississippi State, US
95
CUlocation not on record
24
New Haven, US
19
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
11
Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
7
Decorah, US
4
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
4
St. Paul, US
4
East Lansing, US
3
Philadelphia, US
2
UDlocation not on record
2
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
12 institutions · 176 of 187 vouchered records shown · 11 without an institution code
