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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF11 811 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD13 specimens
01Narrative
Alypia octomaculata, the eight-spotted forester, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the eastern part of the United States and in parts of Canada and Mexico. Larva The moth is black, with 2 whitish or yellowish spots in each wing.Borror, Donald J. & White, Richard E., Insects - A Peterson Field Guide, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York, 1970, plate #12 The wingspan is 30–37 mm. The moth flies from April to June in one generation in the north. In the south it has a second generation, which flies in August. The larvae feed on Virginia creeper.
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 Alypia octomaculata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens13
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus13 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 15 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)0.65%
Haplotypes7
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.4%
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 type11 811 records
Wild obs. + sensor11 364
Museum / vouchered447
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO33 608 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 accuracy81% within 1 km
≤100 m 6 418≤1 km 1 568≤10 km 692>10 km 1 144
9 822 georeferenced · 1 542 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor11 364
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 accuracy20% within 1 km
≤100 m 15≤1 km 34≤10 km 156>10 km 35
240 georeferenced · 207 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence447
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 30 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
New Haven, US
145
St. Paul, US
104
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
38
King Saud Universitylocation not on record
22
OSUClocation not on record
17
East Lansing, US
17
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
14
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
13
Denver, US
12
Toronto, CA
9
Philadelphia, US
6
Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
4
CUlocation not on record
4
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
3
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
3
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
3
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
2
Wuzhou, CN
2
UDlocation not on record
2
Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record
2
Chicago, US
2
ASUlocation not on record
1
US
1
Mississippi State, US
1
University of Guelphlocation not on record
1
College Station, US
1
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
1
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
Decorah, US
1
San Luis Potosí, MX
1
30 institutions · 433 of 447 vouchered records shown · 14 without an institution code
