Acronicta lupini, the lupine dagger or little bear, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1873. It is found from Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, British Columbia, Alberta and Yukon in Canada, south to California. It is found in alpine habitats. The wingspan is about 33 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August in Canada.
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 lupini has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens19
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus17 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. 98% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 16 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)0.42%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.61%
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 type429 records
Wild obs. + sensor202
Museum / vouchered227
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 128 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 accuracy78% within 1 km
≤100 m 102≤1 km 24≤10 km 25>10 km 11
162 georeferenced · 40 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor202
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 accuracy81% within 1 km
≤100 m 63≤1 km 51≤10 km 23>10 km 3
140 georeferenced · 87 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence227
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 institutions4 of 10 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
124
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
38
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
20
Denver, US
14
New Haven, US
8
Vernal, US
6
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
4
St. Paul, US
2
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodeslocation not on record
1
DOI/FWS, Kenai National Wildlife Refugelocation not on record
1
10 institutions · 218 of 227 vouchered records shown · 9 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA1 detections
Where the DNA of Acronicta lupini 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 found1
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 1 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 median10.4 °C 10.4–10.4
Seasonal swing summer↔winter22.7 °C
Max temp (day)14.1 °C
Min temp (night)6.20 °C
Precipitation51.5 mm/mo
Air humidity60.5 %
Moisture balance-68.7 mm/mo
Vapour deficit500 Pa
Wind speed7.10 m/s
Cloud cover43.5 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · 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.
