Agriopis marginaria
(Fabricius) · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Agriopis marginaria's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility108 113 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI407 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics348 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.
The dotted border (Agriopis marginaria) is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1776. It is found throughout Europe, except the far north, and the Near East. Dotted border caterpillar The female of this species has only vestigial wings and is totally flightless. It is usually found resting on the trunks and branches of the larval food plants. The male has orange-brown forewings with a paler yellowish band and a row of dots along the termen which gives it its common name. The hindwings are whitish with faint fascia. Melanic forms are frequently seen. The wingspan is 36–42 mm.Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf Keys and description 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 adults are active from February to April, the male sometimes coming to light but not strongly attracted. The egg is ovate, greenish, becoming reddish on the upper side. The very variable larva is usually greenish-brown with dark cross-shaped markings along the back and feeds on a range of trees and shrubs (see list below). The species overwinters as a pupa. The flight season refers to the British Isles. This may vary in other parts of the range.
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 marginaria 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 marginaria 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 type108 113 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 institutions21 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 |
|---|---|
| South Kensington, GB | 1 204 |
| DanishLepidopterologicalSocietylocation not on record | 799 |
| Zürich, CH | 751 |
| Bern, CH | 256 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 165 |
| Salzburg, AT | 149 |
| Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record | 139 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 96 |
| Podgorica, ME | 91 |
| Geneva, CH | 79 |
| Tartu, EE | 78 |
| Dhaka, BD | 76 |
| Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record | 59 |
| Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record | 55 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 51 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 50 |
| DABUHlocation not on record | 50 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 48 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 43 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 41 |
| Paro, BT | 32 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 27 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 25 |
| University of Ostravalocation not on record | 24 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 23 |
| Helsinki, FI | 22 |
| Naturama Aargaulocation not on record | 20 |
| Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record | 19 |
| Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record | 19 |
| Glarus, CH | 16 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 15 |
| Radicondoli, IT | 14 |
| Tallinn, EE | 14 |
| Ugentlocation not on record | 12 |
| New Haven, US | 10 |
| SFRAlocation not on record | 10 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 9 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 9 |
| Stockholm, SE | 8 |
| University of Edinburghlocation not on record | 8 |
| MUZOO - Musée d'histoire naturelle de La Chaux-de-Fondslocation not on record | 8 |
| NCMGlocation not on record | 7 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Cambridge, US | 6 |
| Fribourg, CH | 6 |
| Philadelphia, US | 6 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 4 |
| Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record | 4 |
| ZMAAlocation not on record | 3 |
| Research Collection of Gyula M. Laszlolocation not on record | 3 |
| Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record | 3 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Maduka University Ekwegbe Nsukka Nigerialocation not on record | 2 |
| Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record | 2 |
| Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record | 2 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 2 |
| Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciêncialocation not on record | 2 |
| Philosophical Societylocation not on record | 2 |
| Wellcome Sanger Institutelocation not on record | 1 |
| Research Collection of Bernd Muellerlocation not on record | 1 |
| Brussels, BE | 1 |
| RERElocation not on record | 1 |
| Research Collection of Stoyan Beshkovlocation not on record | 1 |
| neflocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Agriopis marginaria 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.