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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF510 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD23 specimens
01Narrative
Agrotis volubilis, the voluble dart moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Leon F. Harvey in 1874. It is found in North America, from Newfoundland to British Columbia in Canada and in the United States from Maine to Florida and west to the West Coast. The wingspan is 35–40 mm. Adults are on wing from May to July. There is one generation per year. The larvae feed on a wide range of plants, including Medicago sativa, Phaseolus, Cerastium, Trifolium, Zea mays, Hordeum pusillum and Nicotiana.
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 volubilis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens23
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus23 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. 100% of positions are identical in every specimen.
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 type510 records
Wild obs. + sensor148
Museum / vouchered362
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO968 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 accuracy87% within 1 km
≤100 m 93≤1 km 10≤10 km 11>10 km 4
118 georeferenced · 30 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor148
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 accuracy52% within 1 km
≤100 m 53≤1 km 39≤10 km 76>10 km 9
177 georeferenced · 185 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence362
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 23 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
56
East Lansing, US
53
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
51
St. Paul, US
41
New Haven, US
34
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
28
ASUlocation not on record
23
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
10
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
9
Helsinki, FI
9
Chicago, US
6
OSUClocation not on record
5
Santa Cruz, US
3
San Diego, US
3
Toronto, CA
2
SOVTlocation not on record
2
Cambridge, US
2
UDlocation not on record
1
Brussels, BE
1
Saint John, CA
1
US
1
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
1
Albuquerque, US
1
23 institutions · 343 of 362 vouchered records shown · 19 without an institution code
