Agonum piceum is a species of ground beetle in the Platyninae subfamily that can be found everywhere in Europe except for Albania, Andorra, Monaco, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Vatican City and various European islands.
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 Agonum piceum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens19
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections18
Countries3
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 13 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)0.50%
Haplotypes8
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.76%
Europe
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 type2 609 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 748
Museum / vouchered828
Fossil18
Other15
Origin
Native78
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO5 036 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 accuracy84% within 1 km
≤100 m 965≤1 km 463≤10 km 279>10 km 1
1 708 georeferenced · 40 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 748
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 accuracy45% within 1 km
≤100 m 141≤1 km 196≤10 km 368>10 km 51
756 georeferenced · 72 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence828
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 institutions17 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
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
100
NHMOlocation not on record
53
Helsinki, FI
49
TMPMlocation not on record
42
Tartu, EE
42
Kuopio, FI
35
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
34
FEBlocation not on record
32
Olocation not on record
30
Bern, CH
28
Geneva, CH
24
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
17
Provo, US
16
CBDClocation not on record
15
Jyväskylä, FI
15
Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record
15
Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record
15
Tilburg, NL
14
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
12
Philadelphia, US
11
GMBRClocation not on record
7
Copenhagen, DK
7
Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record
7
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
6
BioFokuslocation not on record
6
Metsähallituslocation not on record
6
Montpellier, FR
5
MZLUlocation not on record
4
Frauenfeld, CH
4
Tromsø, NO
4
Nijmegen, NL
3
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
3
NCMGlocation not on record
2
neflocation not on record
2
Department of Microbiology, Prince of Songkla Universitylocation not on record
2
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
2
ZSMlocation not on record
2
Salzburg, AT
2
Tallinn, EE
2
Oulu, FI
2
University of Oulu, Zoological Museumlocation not on record
1
ZMAAlocation not on record
1
LSMlocation not on record
1
Veterinary Laboratory Agencylocation not on record
1
44 institutions · 681 of 828 vouchered records shown · 147 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA18 detections
Where the DNA of Agonum piceum 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 found18
Studies independent surveys1
Countries3
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 18 detections have coordinates
Open the map3 countries0
Garten
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 median15.0 °C 9.50–15.8
Seasonal swing summer↔winter17.9 °C
Max temp (day)17.2 °C 11.2–19.9
Min temp (night)10.8 °C 7.60–12.9
Precipitation61.6 mm/mo 53.0–72.4
Air humidity60.5 % 57.5–64.3
Vapour deficit675 Pa 455–736
Cloud cover37.5 % 33.2–54.8
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 17 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.
