Aethes spartinana

(Barnes & McDunnough, 1916) · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Tortricidae/Aethes

At a glance

Occurrence records83

Data sources8

Biological traits0

DNA specimens6

eDNA detections5

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Aethes spartinana's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility83 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics6 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF83 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 2 countries5 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD6 specimens

01Narrative

Aethes spartinana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1916. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts and South Dakota. The wingspan is 19 –. Adults have been recorded on wing in January and from July to September. The larvae feed on Spartina pectinata. They bore though the glumes and feed on the florets inside. A single larva generally feeds on a series of consecutive spikelets. Later, they tunnel into the stem of their host plant.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding6 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 Aethes spartinana has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens6

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections5

Countries2

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 type83 records

Wild obs. + sensor48

Museum / vouchered35

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO96 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 accuracy96% within 1 km

≤100 m 35≤1 km 10>10 km 2

47 georeferenced · 1 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor48

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 1≤10 km 3

4 georeferenced · 31 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence35

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 institutions3 of 6 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
St. Paul, US	6
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	3
Champaign, US	3
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record	2
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record	1

6 institutions · 35 of 35 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA5 detections

Where the DNA of Aethes spartinana 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 found5

Studies independent surveys1

Countries2

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

Where its DNA was found

0 of 5 detections have coordinates

Open the map2 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 median24.1 °C 20.3–25.8

Seasonal swing summer↔winter27.1 °C

Max temp (day)28.1 °C 25.2–31.0

Min temp (night)20.9 °C 16.5–21.5

Precipitation96.2 mm/mo 79.7–103

Air humidity58.1 % 58.0–58.7

Moisture balance-88.3 mm/mo -96.1–-84.0

Vapour deficit1,252 Pa 996–1,391

Wind speed3.60 m/s 3.10–5.00

Cloud cover34.1 % 30.4–38.3

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 4 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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