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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF1 399 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD42 specimens
01Narrative
Acronicta lepusculina, the cottonwood dagger moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found in most of eastern North America, west through southern Canada to Vancouver Island and southward. The wingspan is 40–50 mm. Adults are on wing from May to July depending on the location. The larvae feed on the leaves of Salix, Populus and Betula 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 lepusculina has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens42
BINs2
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus40 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 8 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)0.85%
Haplotypes9
BINs2
Most divergent pair10.9%
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 type1 399 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 021
Museum / vouchered378
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO3 744 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 accuracy86% within 1 km
≤100 m 620≤1 km 132≤10 km 64>10 km 54
870 georeferenced · 151 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 021
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 accuracy38% within 1 km
≤100 m 35≤1 km 53≤10 km 125>10 km 19
232 georeferenced · 146 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence378
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 institutions12 of 28 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
East Lansing, US
88
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
51
New Haven, US
43
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
33
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
28
King Saud Universitylocation not on record
19
St. Paul, US
14
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
12
Denver, US
10
Mississippi State, US
7
Vernal, US
7
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
6
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
5
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
5
Brussels, BE
5
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
2
Toronto, CA
2
San Francisco, US
1
University of Guelphlocation not on record
1
OSUClocation not on record
1
CUlocation not on record
1
ASUlocation not on record
1
Cambridge, US
1
Chicago, US
1
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
1
Champaign, US
1
SOVTlocation not on record
1
University of California, Davislocation not on record
1
28 institutions · 348 of 378 vouchered records shown · 30 without an institution code
