Agapostemon melliventris, the honey-tailed striped-sweat bee, is a species of sweat bee in the family Halictidae. Honey-tailed striped-sweat bee, Agapostemon melliventris
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 Agapostemon melliventris has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens42
BINs3
Marker genes1
eDNA detections68
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus38 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. 90% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 68 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)4.8%
Haplotypes16
BINs3
Most divergent pair8.8%
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 type4 753 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 136
Museum / vouchered3 585
Other32
Origin
Native8
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO4 904 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 accuracy87% within 1 km
≤100 m 725≤1 km 120≤10 km 26>10 km 99
970 georeferenced · 166 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 136
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 accuracy21% within 1 km
≤100 m 107≤1 km 83≤10 km 588>10 km 115
893 georeferenced · 2 692 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence3 585
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 institutions26 of 38 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Beltsville, US
1 318
Essig Museum of Entomologylocation not on record
610
Wuzhou, CN
604
367
Albuquerque, US
110
University of Alabamalocation not on record
92
Ciudad de México, MX
49
US
48
San Diego, US
47
Awka, NG
47
WIlocation not on record
42
Mexico City, MX
32
Champaign, US
32
ASUlocation not on record
23
New Haven, US
22
Cambridge, US
21
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
18
Provo, US
17
US
14
College Station, US
11
WSUClocation not on record
10
OSUClocation not on record
9
Los Angeles, US
8
EL PASO, US
5
Denton, US
4
Decorah, US
3
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
3
Lubbock, US
2
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Entomology Sectionlocation not on record
2
Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record
2
Chicago, US
2
US
2
Instituto de Fitosanidad, Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillolocation not on record
1
La Jolla, US
1
Budapest, HU
1
University Park, US
1
San Nicolás de los Garza, MX
1
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
1
38 institutions · 3 582 of 3 585 vouchered records shown · 3 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA68 detections
Where the DNA of Agapostemon melliventris 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 found68
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 68 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 countries0
citrus grove
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 median30.1 °C 22.4–33.9
Seasonal swing summer↔winter20.4 °C
Max temp (day)36.1 °C 29.0–40.8
Min temp (night)23.7 °C 15.2–26.5
Precipitation11.5 mm/mo 0.5–68.7
Air humidity43.5 % 38.0–57.5
Moisture balance-165 mm/mo -213–-89.4
Vapour deficit2,180 Pa 1,518–3,218
Wind speed2.70 m/s 2.00–3.90
Cloud cover18.2 % 14.6–27.2
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 63 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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility4 753 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI68 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics42 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗