Agriopis aurantiaria
(Hübner) · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Agriopis aurantiaria's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility49 454 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI917 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics766 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Agriopis aurantiaria, the scarce umber, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1799 and it is found throughout Europe from Spain through Central Europe to Russia. In the south it can be found from the western Mediterranean to the Black Sea and the Caucasus. Its northern distribution reaches as far as central Fennoscandia. The species can be found in many different places, including deciduous forests, orchards, gardens as well as parks and settlement areas. Larva The wingspan is 27–35 mm. There is a strong sexual dimorphism. The males have normally developed wings. The forewings are dark golden yellow or orange yellow to light brown and dusted with many black scales. There are three brown-grey transverse bands the outermost broken. Sometimes there are large black patches in the postdiscal area. The hindwings have the same basic colour as the forewings, but are however always paler with two thin, dark lines. The antennae are double saw combed..Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf Keys and description The male differs from its congeners in its bright golden-brown colour. Forma include — ab. fumipennaria Heilweger. Forewing infuscated (violet -brown), only the fringe yellow; hindwing also more or less smoky. male-ab. fasciata Linstoiv has a dark band distally to the postmedian line. Prout, L. B. (1912–16). Geometridae. In A. Seitz (ed.) The Macrolepidoptera of the World. The Palaearctic Geometridae, 4. 479 pp. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart.pdf The flightless females have almost entirely vestigial wings, a clumsy body, tapering at the end of body shape and are grey brown. The stub wings have are grey with two black crosses. The egg is flattened at one end, longitudinally ribbed and purplish. The caterpillar is yellowish, inclining to ochreous, lined with brown on the back, and striped with purplish on the sides. The underside is dark purplish brown, inclining to blackish, and striped with yellowish. Adults are on wing from October to November. The larvae feed on various deciduous trees, including Betula, Quercus robur, Sorbus aucuparia, Rosa and Prunus padus.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Diet & foraging2
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 Agriopis aurantiaria has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ 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.
The complete instruction manual Agriopis aurantiaria carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
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
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.
Record type49 454 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions22 of 63 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| South Kensington, GB | 802 |
| Zürich, CH | 629 |
| DanishLepidopterologicalSocietylocation not on record | 436 |
| Bern, CH | 205 |
| Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record | 205 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 162 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 155 |
| Tartu, EE | 92 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 92 |
| Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record | 75 |
| Salzburg, AT | 70 |
| Dhaka, BD | 59 |
| RMZlocation not on record | 55 |
| Podgorica, ME | 52 |
| Glarus, CH | 50 |
| Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record | 46 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 45 |
| Paro, BT | 37 |
| Geneva, CH | 33 |
| University of Edinburghlocation not on record | 30 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 29 |
| Helsinki, FI | 29 |
| ZMAAlocation not on record | 26 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 23 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 19 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 18 |
| Naturama Aargaulocation not on record | 17 |
| Tromsø, NO | 16 |
| SFRAlocation not on record | 16 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 15 |
| DABUHlocation not on record | 15 |
| Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record | 13 |
| University of Ostravalocation not on record | 13 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 11 |
| Tallinn, EE | 10 |
| Ugentlocation not on record | 9 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 8 |
| NCMGlocation not on record | 7 |
| MUZOO - Musée d'histoire naturelle de La Chaux-de-Fondslocation not on record | 7 |
| Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record | 7 |
| Philadelphia, US | 7 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 7 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 7 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 6 |
| Fribourg, CH | 6 |
| New Haven, US | 5 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 5 |
| Stockholm, SE | 4 |
| Musée de Saint-Imierlocation not on record | 4 |
| Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record | 3 |
| Kuopio, FI | 3 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 2 |
| Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record | 2 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record | 2 |
| Philosophical Societylocation not on record | 2 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 2 |
| EGBlocation not on record | 2 |
| Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record | 1 |
| neflocation not on record | 1 |
| Research Collection of Bernd Muellerlocation not on record | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| Brussels, BE | 1 |
Where the DNA of Agriopis aurantiaria 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
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
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.