Aglais milberti, the fire-rim tortoiseshell or Milbert's tortoiseshell, is considered the only species of the proposed Aglais genus that occurs in North America.
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 Aglais milberti has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens36
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections38
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus29 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. 93% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 43 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)1.6%
Haplotypes6
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
07Deep time~10.2 Ma lineage
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin10.2 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type13 739 records
Wild obs. + sensor11 988
Museum / vouchered1 693
Other58
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO29 892 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 accuracy79% within 1 km
≤100 m 4 803≤1 km 2 288≤10 km 1 413>10 km 518
9 022 georeferenced · 2 966 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor11 988
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 accuracy46% within 1 km
≤100 m 71≤1 km 401≤10 km 472>10 km 87
1 031 georeferenced · 662 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 693
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 institutions22 of 44 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
233
Toronto, CA
216
Edmonton, CA
151
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
126
Cambridge, US
121
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
115
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
101
University Park, US
99
White River Junction, US
80
KWPlocation not on record
74
Denver, US
47
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
45
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
42
Philadelphia, US
29
WWUlocation not on record
26
Champaign, US
26
OSUClocation not on record
25
Washington, US
16
US
9
Saint John, CA
9
Brussels, BE
9
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
9
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
7
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
6
Mississippi State, US
4
Blacksburg, US
4
München, DE
4
Chicago, US
3
CUlocation not on record
3
Albuquerque, US
3
National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record
3
DOI/FWS, Kenai National Wildlife Refugelocation not on record
3
Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
3
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
2
Budapest, HU
2
Vernal, US
2
MZLUlocation not on record
2
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record
1
Research Collection of Crispin S. Guppylocation not on record
1
Auckland, NZ
1
Chicago, US
1
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
1
University of Alaska Museumlocation not on record
1
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
44 institutions · 1 666 of 1 693 vouchered records shown · 27 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA38 detections
Where the DNA of Aglais milberti 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 found38
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
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 median13.2 °C 7.90–18.1
Seasonal swing summer↔winter25.5 °C
Max temp (day)20.2 °C 12.9–23.0
Min temp (night)7.80 °C 3.00–13.3
Precipitation81.6 mm/mo 46.2–142
Air humidity56.9 % 51.3–63.1
Moisture balance-51.0 mm/mo -75.3–29.0
Vapour deficit735 Pa 438–840
Wind speed2.90 m/s 1.70–4.10
Cloud cover39.3 % 36.2–55.2
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 29 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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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility13 739 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI38 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics36 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
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