Amara lunicollis is a species of seed-eating ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China), North America, and temperate Asia.
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 Amara lunicollis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens98
BINs2
Marker genes2
eDNA detections85
Countries10
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus77 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 6 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)0.57%
Haplotypes10
BINs2
Most divergent pair5.3%
N.AmericaEurope
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-3P★COI-5P
animal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type13 569 records
Wild obs. + sensor10 258
Museum / vouchered3 195
Cultivated / captive12
Fossil13
Other91
Origin
Native1 522
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO14 440 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 accuracy70% within 1 km
≤100 m 5 018≤1 km 1 812≤10 km 2 868>10 km 4
9 702 georeferenced · 556 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor10 258
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 accuracy33% within 1 km
≤100 m 608≤1 km 358≤10 km 1 944>10 km 55
2 965 georeferenced · 230 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence3 195
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km
≤1 km 1
1 georeferenced · 11 without coordinates
Open the mapnot free-living12
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 institutions29 of 80 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
200
EIBElocation not on record
170
Tempe, US
109
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
100
FEBlocation not on record
87
Jyväskylä, FI
74
Bern, CH
68
Paro, BT
67
Metsähallituslocation not on record
60
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
58
Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau Frick | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Fricklocation not on record
53
Geneva, CH
51
Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record
50
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
46
Tilburg, NL
43
Dhaka, BD
42
TMPMlocation not on record
41
Olocation not on record
40
Trondheim, NO
39
Tartu, EE
38
Helsinki, FI
36
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
34
Cambridge, US
33
NMOKlocation not on record
33
Zürich, CH
33
NHMOlocation not on record
33
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
33
Albuquerque, US
29
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
29
Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record
24
Tromsø, NO
24
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
24
Edmonton, CA
19
IFR-DNFlocation not on record
17
Kuopio, FI
15
Salzburg, AT
15
Copenhagen, DK
14
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
14
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
12
LSMlocation not on record
11
CBDClocation not on record
11
BioFokuslocation not on record
10
NEON Biorepository at Arizona State Universitylocation not on record
8
Saint John, CA
8
Tallinn, EE
7
MZLUlocation not on record
7
Ghent, BE
7
Leuphanalocation not on record
6
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
6
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
5
HAFLlocation not on record
5
Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record
5
ZSMlocation not on record
5
Frauenfeld, CH
5
Veterinary Laboratory Agencylocation not on record
4
Nijmegen, NL
4
NCMGlocation not on record
4
Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record
4
Decorah, US
3
Vitoria, ES
3
neflocation not on record
3
WIlocation not on record
3
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koeniglocation not on record
3
Rovaniemi, FI
2
ZMAAlocation not on record
2
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
2
Espace pour la vielocation not on record
2
University of Guelphlocation not on record
2
IPEM TASlocation not on record
2
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
1
Philadelphia, US
1
Ugentlocation not on record
1
Oulu, FI
1
SOVTlocation not on record
1
EWIClocation not on record
1
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
1
Essig Museum of Entomologylocation not on record
1
National Ecological Observatory Network, United Stateslocation not on record
1
University Park, US
1
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
80 institutions · 2 067 of 3 195 vouchered records shown · 1 128 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA85 detections
Where the DNA of Amara lunicollis was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found85
Studies independent surveys1
Countries10
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 85 detections have coordinates
Open the map10 countries0
farmBetula, Salix, white sprucegrasslandHerbaceousWaldrandpastureHaymixedForest
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median15.9 °C 5.90–20.4
Seasonal swing summer↔winter28.7 °C
Max temp (day)20.0 °C 10.6–26.2
Min temp (night)11.2 °C 1.60–15.9
Precipitation76.3 mm/mo 54.9–100
Air humidity58.5 % 55.0–62.9
Moisture balance-44.7 mm/mo -86.5–14.3
Vapour deficit745 Pa 450–1,011
Wind speed3.70 m/s 2.40–5.00
Cloud cover39.6 % 30.8–53.3
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 83 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility13 569 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI85 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics98 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗