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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF918 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD26 specimens
01Narrative
Agrotis vetusta, the old man dart, spotted-legged cutworm or muted dart (when referring to Agrotis vetusta mutata) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in North America, from southern Alaska to Nova Scotia, southward into Mexico. The wingspan is 35–42 mm. Adults are on wing from August to September depending on the location. The larvae feed on various forbs, vegetables, and row crops.
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 vetusta has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens26
BINs2
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus25 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)0.53%
Haplotypes7
BINs2
Most divergent pair1.2%
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 type918 records
Wild obs. + sensor184
Museum / vouchered734
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 724 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 accuracy74% within 1 km
≤100 m 84≤1 km 28≤10 km 21>10 km 18
151 georeferenced · 33 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor184
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 accuracy32% within 1 km
≤100 m 42≤1 km 92≤10 km 251>10 km 36
421 georeferenced · 313 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence734
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 institutions15 of 29 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
East Lansing, US
180
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
83
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
79
St. Paul, US
78
New Haven, US
73
King Saud Universitylocation not on record
32
North Carolina State University Insect Museumlocation not on record
28
Helsinki, FI
23
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
21
San Diego, US
20
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
15
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
14
ASUlocation not on record
14
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
9
US
9
UDlocation not on record
5
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
5
Mississippi State, US
4
WWUlocation not on record
4
Chicago, US
4
US
1
KWPlocation not on record
1
Toronto, CA
1
Philadelphia, US
1
Cambridge, US
1
OSUClocation not on record
1
Washington, US
1
Albuquerque, US
1
Champaign, US
1
29 institutions · 709 of 734 vouchered records shown · 25 without an institution code
