Schirmel et al. 2012Birkhofer et al. 2017Entling et al. 2007Buchar & Růžička 2002Bruun & Lissner 2019Gajdoš & Svatoň 2001SLU 2020Staręga et al. 2001Gajdoš et al. 2014Henriksen & Hilmo 2015Harvey et al. 2017Liste France 2018Hyvärinen et al. 2019Komposch & Steinberger 1999Martin 2012Buchholz et al. 2011Hiebsch & Tolke 1996Sacher & Platen 2004Lemke et al. 2013Řezáč et al. 2015Finch 2004Kielhorn 2017Blick & Scheidler 2004Noflatscher 1994Nährig et al. 2003Blick et al. 2016Maelfait et al. 1998Nentwig et al. 2018Cardoso et al. 2011
Morphometry1
Body length♀6.42·♂4.4 mm
Predation4
Hunting guildground hunters
Simple hunting guild IIwanderer
Simple hunting guild classificationcursorial
Web buildingno
Ecology8
Ballooninguncommon
Light0.625 mm
Light 2open
Moisture 10.5 mm
Moisture 2dry
Regional IUCN Red List categoryLeast Concern (LC)
Regional non-IUCN Red List categoryData Deficient (?)
Stratumsurface
05DNA & barcoding17 specimens
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 Agroeca proxima has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens17
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections27
Countries6
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. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 8 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)0.35%
Haplotypes6
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.76%
EuropeAsia
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 type5 001 records
Wild obs. + sensor3 155
Museum / vouchered1 839
Cultivated / captive2
Other5
Origin
Native61
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO4 144 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 accuracy54% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 201≤1 km 449≤10 km 1 385>10 km 3
3 038 georeferenced · 117 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor3 155
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 accuracy44% within 1 km
≤100 m 401≤1 km 221≤10 km 779>10 km 28
1 429 georeferenced · 410 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 839
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 · 2 records without
Open the mapnot free-living2
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 institutions12 of 36 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Brussels, BE
636
Helsinki, FI
266
Akademia Pomorska w Słupskulocation not on record
217
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
131
Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record
114
Tilburg, NL
87
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE), UB RASlocation not on record
41
Ekaterinburg, RU
25
Bern, CH
20
Uniwersytet w Białymstokulocation not on record
19
Copenhagen, DK
15
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
13
Zoologisches Museum Hamburglocation not on record
11
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
9
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
7
Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record
7
Tartu, EE
6
Frankfurt am Main
6
Prioksko-Terrasnyi Biosphere Reservelocation not on record
6
Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record
6
Bonn, DE
4
Geneva, CH
4
University of Tokyo, Department of Zoologylocation not on record
4
Senckenberg Museum fuer Naturkunde Goerlitzlocation not on record
4
Metsähallituslocation not on record
4
Rovaniemi, FI
3
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE) UB RASlocation not on record
3
RMZlocation not on record
3
Cambridge, US
3
SNSDlocation not on record
3
SGAV-and-NHMDlocation not on record
2
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
2
SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung Münchenlocation not on record
1
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
1
MZLUlocation not on record
1
ZSMlocation not on record
1
36 institutions · 1 685 of 1 839 vouchered records shown · 154 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 DNA27 detections
Where the DNA of Agroeca proxima 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 found27
Studies independent surveys3
Countries6
Verifiable raw sequence linked10
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 27 detections have coordinates
Open the map6 countries0
HochmoorPfeifengrasBergheide
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 median14.6 °C 11.0–16.9
Seasonal swing summer↔winter19.6 °C
Max temp (day)20.0 °C 14.9–21.2
Min temp (night)9.20 °C 7.00–14.2
Precipitation67.2 mm/mo 36.7–82.8
Air humidity57.3 % 56.7–64.5
Moisture balance-42.7 mm/mo -51.9–16.6
Vapour deficit719 Pa 476–770
Wind speed2.50 m/s 2.30–3.70
Cloud cover40.9 % 26.4–53.7
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 25 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 Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 001 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI27 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics17 specimens↗
World Spider Trait DBMasaryk University13 traits · 29 refs↗
World Spider CatalogNaturhist. Museum Bernworld catalog↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗