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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF238 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD7 specimens
01Narrative
Alcathoe caudata is een vlinder uit de familie wespvlinders (Sesiidae), onderfamilie Sesiinae. Alcathoe caudata is voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door Harris in 1839. De soort komt voor in het Nearctisch gebied.
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 Alcathoe caudata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens7
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus6 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)0.62%
Haplotypes3
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.91%
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 type238 records
Wild obs. + sensor171
Museum / vouchered67
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO696 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 accuracy79% within 1 km
≤100 m 90≤1 km 27≤10 km 20>10 km 11
148 georeferenced · 23 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor171
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 accuracy21% within 1 km
≤1 km 8≤10 km 25>10 km 5
38 georeferenced · 29 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence67
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 institutions7 of 10 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
28
Mississippi State, US
15
New Haven, US
7
Washington, US
7
Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
3
Philadelphia, US
2
SOVTlocation not on record
2
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
1
Chicago, US
1
University Park, US
1
10 institutions · 67 of 67 vouchered records shown
