Agrotis simplonia is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Alps, Pyrenees, the Cantabrian Mountains and the Apennine Mountains on heights between 1,200 and 3,000 meters. The wingspan is 32–40 mm. Adults are on wing from May to October. The larvae feed on various grasses.
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 Agrotis simplonia has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens23
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections22
Countries5
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus22 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)0.36%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.2%
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-5P
animal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type5 460 records
Wild obs. + sensor3 238
Museum / vouchered1 973
Other249
Origin
Native1 970
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO3 880 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 accuracy29% within 1 km
≤100 m 589≤1 km 325≤10 km 2 186>10 km 29
3 129 georeferenced · 109 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor3 238
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 accuracy8% within 1 km
≤100 m 32≤1 km 113≤10 km 1 776>10 km 12
1 933 georeferenced · 40 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 973
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 institutions14 of 37 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Zürich, CH
304
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
143
Bern, CH
137
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
134
Salzburg, AT
125
Dhaka, BD
104
Geneva, CH
99
Glarus, CH
98
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
71
Frauenfeld, CH
43
Sion, CH
39
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
35
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
33
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
33
Fribourg, CH
26
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
17
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
16
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
14
Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record
14
SFRAlocation not on record
10
UMUlocation not on record
10
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
9
Winterthur, CH
7
Musée de Saint-Imierlocation not on record
7
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeumlocation not on record
6
NHMOlocation not on record
5
Tartu, EE
5
MZLUlocation not on record
3
KSSlocation not on record
2
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record
2
Helsinki, FI
2
Naturama Aargaulocation not on record
2
Cambridge, US
1
Chicago, US
1
ZSMlocation not on record
1
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeumlocation not on record
1
EGBlocation not on record
1
37 institutions · 1 560 of 1 973 vouchered records shown · 413 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA22 detections
Where the DNA of Agrotis simplonia 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 found22
Studies independent surveys1
Countries5
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 22 detections have coordinates
Open the map5 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 median13.1 °C 5.20–15.9
Seasonal swing summer↔winter19.4 °C
Max temp (day)17.6 °C 9.20–20.2
Min temp (night)6.80 °C -1.30–10.0
Precipitation141 mm/mo 76.1–225
Air humidity60.9 % 56.2–64.2
Moisture balance40.5 mm/mo -62.0–141
Vapour deficit601 Pa 338–777
Wind speed2.40 m/s 1.90–6.20
Cloud cover38.0 % 34.7–39.3
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 21 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.
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 460 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI22 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics23 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗