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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF1 173 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD92 specimens
01Narrative
Agrotis vancouverensis, the Vancouver dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1873. It is found in the Pacific Northwest of North America and is common west of the Cascade Mountains. The length of the forewings is about 33 mm. Adults are on wing in late spring and early summer. There is one generation per year. The larvae feed on various herbs.
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 vancouverensis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens92
BINs3
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus90 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. 97% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 17 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)1.1%
Haplotypes9
BINs3
Most divergent pair2.9%
N.America
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 type1 173 records
Wild obs. + sensor368
Museum / vouchered805
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 468 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 accuracy86% within 1 km
≤100 m 168≤1 km 54≤10 km 24>10 km 13
259 georeferenced · 109 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor368
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 accuracy42% within 1 km
≤100 m 73≤1 km 38≤10 km 120>10 km 32
263 georeferenced · 542 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence805
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 institutions13 of 21 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
295
New Haven, US
116
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
86
Helsinki, FI
50
East Lansing, US
37
ASUlocation not on record
17
San Diego, US
16
WWUlocation not on record
16
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
11
St. Paul, US
11
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
10
Mississippi State, US
9
Edmonton, CA
8
Albuquerque, US
7
US
5
National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record
3
Vernal, US
1
US
1
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
1
Chicago, US
1
Santa Cruz, US
1
21 institutions · 702 of 805 vouchered records shown · 103 without an institution code
