Agrochola lota, the red-line Quaker, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759. It is distributed throughout the whole of Europe except Scandinavia; in Armenia, Asia Minor, and east across the Palearctic to the Altai mountains and western Siberia.It was introduced to Newfoundland. In the Alps, it rises at altitudes of just over 1500 metres.
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 Agrochola lota has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens61
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections41
Countries11
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus60 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 11 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)0.61%
Haplotypes25
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.8%
EuropeOther
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
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualAgrochola lota 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
Genome size≈636 702 707 bp assembly estimate
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).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
THIS GENOME Agrochola lota0.64 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
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.
Assembly levelChromosome
Completeness99% BUSCO
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type19 710 records
Wild obs. + sensor16 700
Museum / vouchered2 174
Other836
Origin
Native4 842
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO15 400 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 accuracy60% within 1 km
≤100 m 7 203≤1 km 1 834≤10 km 5 975>10 km 57
15 069 georeferenced · 1 631 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor16 700
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 55≤1 km 828≤10 km 1 017>10 km 67
1 967 georeferenced · 207 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 174
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 56 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
476
Bern, CH
172
Zürich, CH
148
Tartu, EE
97
Salzburg, AT
74
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
66
Geneva, CH
64
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
57
Dhaka, BD
53
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
53
Podgorica, ME
47
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
43
UMUlocation not on record
42
Paro, BT
40
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
40
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
38
Frauenfeld, CH
35
Philadelphia, US
31
MZLUlocation not on record
26
Sion, CH
20
Nijmegen, NL
20
Fribourg, CH
18
Tallinn, EE
18
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
16
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
16
SFRAlocation not on record
15
Winterthur, CH
14
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeumlocation not on record
14
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
14
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record
14
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
9
Naturama Aargaulocation not on record
8
Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record
8
Glarus, CH
6
EGBlocation not on record
5
ZSMlocation not on record
5
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
5
DABUHlocation not on record
5
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
5
NHMOlocation not on record
4
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
4
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
2
Philosophical Societylocation not on record
2
ИЗШ НАНУlocation not on record
2
South Kensington, GB
2
Stockholm, SE
2
RERElocation not on record
2
Musée de Saint-Imierlocation not on record
2
KSSlocation not on record
2
Banyoles, ES
1
Research Collection of Bernard Dardennelocation not on record
1
Brussels, BE
1
МПХУlocation not on record
1
Radicondoli, IT
1
Tromsø, NO
1
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
1
56 institutions · 1 868 of 2 174 vouchered records shown · 306 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA41 detections
Where the DNA of Agrochola lota 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 found41
Studies independent surveys2
Countries9
Verifiable raw sequence linked3
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 41 detections have coordinates
Open the map9 countries0
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 median13.4 °C 9.00–17.9
Seasonal swing summer↔winter17.5 °C
Max temp (day)16.7 °C 11.1–22.2
Min temp (night)10.2 °C 5.10–13.2
Precipitation96.8 mm/mo 58.4–268
Air humidity62.8 % 59.0–73.7
Moisture balance28.2 mm/mo -57.9–199
Vapour deficit560 Pa 315–836
Wind speed3.30 m/s 1.90–6.20
Cloud cover44.3 % 36.0–53.5
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 36 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 Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility19 710 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI41 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics61 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
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