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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF29 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD8 specimens
01Narrative
Aloeides molomo, the molomo copper, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in southern Africa. The wingspan is 22–33 mm for males and 24–35 mm for females. Adults are on wing from August to December and from March to April. There are two generations per year. The larvae of A. m. krooni feed on Sida ovata.
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 Aloeides molomo has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens8
BINs4
Marker genes1
Countries3
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P653 bp consensus8 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. 89% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 71 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)4.6%
Haplotypes3
BINs4
Most divergent pair6.6%
Africa
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 type29 records
Wild obs. + sensor4
Museum / vouchered25
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO36 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 accuracy67% within 1 km
≤100 m 1≤1 km 1≤10 km 1
3 georeferenced · 1 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor4
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 accuracy0% within 1 km
≤10 km 2
2 georeferenced · 23 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence25
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 institutions1 of 2 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility29 records↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗