Agrilus viridis (beech splendour beetle) is a wood-boring beetle. It belongs to the jewel beetle family, Buprestidae. Widely found in Europe, its larvae eat the wood of living trees — the favourite host plants are goat willow (Salix caprea), beech (Fagus) and birch (Betula), but they will inhabit a number of deciduous tree species. Occasionally the beetle may become a pest in horticulture or forestry.
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 Agrilus viridis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens118
BINs11
Marker genes2
eDNA detections121
Countries14
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus97 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 63 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)3.5%
Haplotypes25
BINs10
Most divergent pair7.4%
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-3P★COI-5P
animal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type5 129 records
Wild obs. + sensor2 541
Museum / vouchered2 534
Cultivated / captive1
Other53
Origin
Native947
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO9 172 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 accuracy41% within 1 km
≤100 m 561≤1 km 391≤10 km 1 320>10 km 26
2 298 georeferenced · 243 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor2 541
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 accuracy27% within 1 km
≤100 m 209≤1 km 390≤10 km 1 507>10 km 82
2 188 georeferenced · 346 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 534
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 1 records without
Open the mapnot free-living1
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 institutions25 of 64 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
249
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
156
Bern, CH
146
Brussels, BE
118
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
100
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
81
Zürich, CH
80
Tartu, EE
75
Geneva, CH
61
Paro, BT
58
Tallinn, EE
54
IFR-DNFlocation not on record
50
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record
46
Olocation not on record
45
Trondheim, NO
43
Helsinki, FI
41
Fribourg, CH
40
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
37
NHMOlocation not on record
37
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
31
Dhaka, BD
30
Salzburg, AT
27
Frauenfeld, CH
25
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
24
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
18
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
15
Paris, FR
14
Bando, JP
11
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
11
NMOKlocation not on record
11
INCONNUlocation not on record
11
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
10
MZLUlocation not on record
9
Kuopio, FI
8
neflocation not on record
8
University of Oulu, Zoological Museumlocation not on record
7
Copenhagen, DK
6
TMPMlocation not on record
6
Musée de l'Hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernardlocation not on record
6
Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record
6
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
6
ZSMlocation not on record
5
Philadelphia, US
5
4
NEFlocation not on record
4
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
4
EJCBlocation not on record
4
Metsähallituslocation not on record
3
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
3
Tilburg, NL
3
BioFokuslocation not on record
3
Tromsø, NO
3
Jyväskylä, FI
3
Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record
2
IZNElocation not on record
2
LSMlocation not on record
2
CBDClocation not on record
2
Stockholm, SE
2
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
2
Canadian Food Inspection Agency / Genotyping/Botanylocation not on record
1
Department of Molecular Biodiversity, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Scienceslocation not on record
1
South Kensington, GB
1
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Scienceslocation not on record
1
Chiba, JP
1
64 institutions · 1 878 of 2 534 vouchered records shown · 656 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA121 detections
Where the DNA of Agrilus viridis 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 found121
Studies independent surveys3
Countries12
Verifiable raw sequence linked7
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 121 detections have coordinates
Open the map12 countries0
Laubwald und BlockhaldeForestTeichufervaivaiskoivut
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 median5.90 °C 2.40–16.7
Seasonal swing summer↔winter21.6 °C
Max temp (day)9.70 °C 5.20–20.4
Min temp (night)1.70 °C -0.9–12.2
Precipitation69.5 mm/mo 57.6–97.6
Air humidity65.2 % 57.7–65.9
Moisture balance4.80 mm/mo -51.5–28.8
Vapour deficit370 Pa 330–783
Wind speed2.40 m/s 1.80–4.40
Cloud cover45.5 % 37.0–56.3
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 115 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 Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 129 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI121 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics118 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
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