Amara municipalis is een keversoort uit de familie van de loopkevers (Carabidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1812 door Duftschmid.
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 municipalis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens13
BINs2
Marker genes1
eDNA detections12
Countries6
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus11 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. 94% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Diversity (π)1.1%
Haplotypes2
BINs2
Most divergent pair0.30%
Where individuals differ — all 38 variable positions, in barcode order
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
07Deep time0.13–0.01 Ma
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
Fossil range0.13–0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Dated fossil finds1
StatusStill living record runs to the present
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Amara municipalis. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
fossil range (PBDB)each dot = one dated find
How it livedPBDB
Environmentterrestrial
Motilityactively mobile
Compositionchitin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type797 records
Wild obs. + sensor252
Museum / vouchered490
Fossil18
Other37
Origin
Native71
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 468 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 accuracy89% within 1 km
≤100 m 192≤1 km 25≤10 km 24>10 km 3
244 georeferenced · 8 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor252
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 accuracy45% within 1 km
≤100 m 58≤1 km 141≤10 km 222>10 km 19
440 georeferenced · 50 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence490
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 institutions15 of 39 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
67
TMPMlocation not on record
30
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
23
Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record
23
Helsinki, FI
21
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
20
Kuopio, FI
19
Bern, CH
18
Zürich, CH
17
Tartu, EE
16
Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record
12
Olocation not on record
12
NHMOlocation not on record
11
Geneva, CH
10
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
9
Copenhagen, DK
9
MZLUlocation not on record
8
IZLAlocation not on record
6
Paro, BT
4
neflocation not on record
4
Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record
4
Tromsø, NO
4
BioFokuslocation not on record
3
LSMlocation not on record
3
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
2
Dhaka, BD
2
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
2
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
2
Tallinn, EE
2
Philadelphia, US
2
ZMAAlocation not on record
2
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koeniglocation not on record
2
IFR-DNFlocation not on record
1
Jyväskylä, FI
1
Salzburg, AT
1
ZSMlocation not on record
1
Oulu, FI
1
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
1
39 institutions · 376 of 490 vouchered records shown · 113 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA12 detections
Where the DNA of Amara municipalis 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 found12
Studies independent surveys1
Countries4
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 12 detections have coordinates
Open the map4 countries0
hiekkakuoppa, moottorirata
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 median1.20 °C 1.20–13.8
Seasonal swing summer↔winter19.1 °C
Max temp (day)3.20 °C 3.20–15.6
Min temp (night)-0.8 °C -0.8–11.6
Precipitation57.3 mm/mo 46.1–67.6
Air humidity68.0 % 60.0–68.0
Moisture balance37.4 mm/mo -73.6–37.4
Vapour deficit216 Pa 216–602
Wind speed3.80 m/s 2.80–5.30
Cloud cover71.0 % 38.2–71.0
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 11 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.
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility796 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI12 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics13 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗