Acronicta falcula

Grote, 1877 · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Noctuidae/Acronicta

At a glance

Occurrence records110

Data sources7

Biological traits0

DNA specimens5

eDNA detections4

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Acronicta falcula's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility110 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF110 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries4 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD5 specimens

01Narrative

Acronicta falcula, the corylus dagger moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1877. It is found in the United States and Canada from southern New England to southern Manitoba and Iowa. Recently seen from Wisconsin, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and Michigan. It is reported as rare in Ohio. It is listed as a species of special concern in the US state of Connecticut."Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015". State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved January 27, 2018. The wingspan is about 42 mm. There are probably two generations in about May and July to August in most of its range. The larvae feed on the foliage of Corylus species."Acronicta falcula Corylus dagger moth". Michigan Natural Features Inventory. Retrieved October 19, 2020.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding5 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 Acronicta falcula has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens5

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections4

Countries1

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 type110 records

Wild obs. + sensor24

Museum / vouchered86

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO248 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 accuracy61% within 1 km

≤100 m 11≤1 km 3≤10 km 6>10 km 3

23 georeferenced · 1 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor24

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 3≤10 km 17>10 km 8

28 georeferenced · 58 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence86

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 institutions9 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
Washington, US	20
New Haven, US	16
St. Paul, US	11
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record	10
East Lansing, US	8
Mississippi State, US	5
Champaign, US	4
Awka, NG	3
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	3
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	3
Denver, US	2
Chicago, US	1

12 institutions · 86 of 86 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA4 detections

Where the DNA of Acronicta falcula 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 found4

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

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

Where its DNA was found

0 of 4 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 median14.7 °C 12.0–19.0

Seasonal swing summer↔winter25.1 °C

Max temp (day)19.9 °C 16.9–24.3

Min temp (night)9.20 °C 7.70–14.0

Precipitation121 mm/mo 116–132

Air humidity59.1 % 56.8–59.7

Moisture balance-6.50 mm/mo -28.4–58.1

Vapour deficit685 Pa 570–962

Wind speed2.80 m/s 2.70–2.90

Cloud cover45.1 % 41.0–50.1

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 3 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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