Agapostemon sericeus, the silky striped-sweat bee, is a species of sweat bee in the family Halictidae. Silky striped-sweat bee, Agapostemon sericeus Silky striped-sweat bee, Agapostemon sericeus
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 sericeus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens66
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections2
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus50 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. 100% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 1 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)0.14%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.46%
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 type5 127 records
Wild obs. + sensor557
Museum / vouchered4 570
Origin
Native1
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO5 132 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 accuracy85% within 1 km
≤100 m 280≤1 km 127≤10 km 22>10 km 48
477 georeferenced · 80 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor557
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 accuracy59% within 1 km
≤100 m 81≤1 km 806≤10 km 534>10 km 83
1 504 georeferenced · 3 066 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence4 570
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 institutions21 of 43 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
WIlocation not on record
1 184
US
585
553
Champaign, US
358
Wuzhou, CN
289
Cambridge, US
213
White River Junction, US
162
New Haven, US
118
Zadock Thompson Natural History Collection, University of Vermontlocation not on record
101
OSUClocation not on record
96
Toronto, CA
83
Beltsville, US
73
UNHClocation not on record
56
New Haven, US
49
Chicago, US
49
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
33
FWSlocation not on record
32
North Carolina State University Insect Museumlocation not on record
32
Toronto, CA
28
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
19
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
16
WSUClocation not on record
14
LULlocation not on record
14
Budapest, HU
12
Mississippi State, US
8
University Park, US
8
Lubbock, US
7
Blacksburg, US
6
University of Central Floridalocation not on record
6
Decorah, US
5
USDA ARSlocation not on record
5
University of Nebraska State Museumlocation not on record
5
Essig Museum of Entomologylocation not on record
4
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
3
Chicago, US
2
Vermont Center for Ecostudieslocation not on record
2
SUNY ESFlocation not on record
2
Middlebury Collegelocation not on record
1
CUlocation not on record
1
Philadelphia, US
1
Washington, US
1
MWC-9735location not on record
1
MWC-6326location not on record
1
43 institutions · 4 238 of 4 570 vouchered records shown · 332 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA2 detections
Where the DNA of Agapostemon sericeus 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 found2
Studies independent surveys1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 2 detections have coordinates
Open the map0 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.
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 Facility5 127 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics66 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗