Agrotis vestigialis, the archer's dart, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is found in most of the Palearctic realm from Ireland east, through to Russia, Siberia, the Altai mountains and the Amur region, and is also present in the Mediterranean Basin. It is absent from the north of Finland and Norway. Male Female
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 vestigialis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens32
BINs3
Marker genes1
eDNA detections4
Countries9
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus30 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 16 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)0.66%
Haplotypes12
BINs3
Most divergent pair2.6%
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 type35 300 records
Wild obs. + sensor31 792
Museum / vouchered3 309
Other199
Origin
Native2 089
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO17 808 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 accuracy25% within 1 km
≤100 m 5 161≤1 km 2 373≤10 km 23 064>10 km 90
30 688 georeferenced · 1 104 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor31 792
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 accuracy66% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 385≤1 km 528≤10 km 929>10 km 59
2 901 georeferenced · 408 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence3 309
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 institutions18 of 49 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
DanishLepidopterologicalSocietylocation not on record
1 563
Helsinki, FI
578
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
106
Tartu, EE
101
NHMOlocation not on record
96
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
63
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
55
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
47
ZMAAlocation not on record
36
Bern, CH
36
MZLUlocation not on record
34
Zürich, CH
32
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
32
Podgorica, ME
25
Tallinn, EE
24
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
21
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
18
Geneva, CH
18
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record
15
Metsähallituslocation not on record
15
Sion, CH
14
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
14
Nijmegen, NL
14
NCMGlocation not on record
12
SFRAlocation not on record
12
UMUlocation not on record
11
Kuopio, FI
11
CBDClocation not on record
10
Stockholm, SE
6
Philadelphia, US
5
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
5
DABUHlocation not on record
5
Dhaka, BD
4
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
4
Glarus, CH
4
Frauenfeld, CH
3
Ugentlocation not on record
3
South Kensington, GB
2
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
2
neflocation not on record
2
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
2
New Haven, US
2
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
2
Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record
2
Fribourg, CH
1
Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record
1
ZSMlocation not on record
1
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
1
ННПМ НАНУlocation not on record
1
49 institutions · 3 071 of 3 309 vouchered records shown · 238 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA4 detections
Where the DNA of Agrotis vestigialis 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 found4
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 4 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 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 median17.6 °C 16.5–17.8
Seasonal swing summer↔winter12.2 °C
Max temp (day)20.2 °C 20.1–20.5
Min temp (night)14.9 °C 12.6–15.4
Precipitation63.1 mm/mo 60.5–63.9
Air humidity63.1 % 60.4–63.2
Moisture balance-46.3 mm/mo -49.0–-23.1
Vapour deficit747 Pa 741–749
Wind speed2.80 m/s 2.60–3.30
Cloud cover37.8 % 37.7–39.5
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 4 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 Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility35 300 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics32 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗