Amara ovata
(Fabricius, 1792) · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Amara ovata's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility11 270 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics53 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Amara ovata is a species of ground beetle native to Europe.Fauna EuropaeaCarl H. Lindroth 1974 Coleoptera. Carabidae. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects Vol 4 Part 2. Royal Entomological Society,London pdf
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
No structured trait data 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 ovata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ 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.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
The complete instruction manual Amara ovata carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
Record type11 270 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
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.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions22 of 70 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Bern, CH | 160 |
| Geneva, CH | 143 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 131 |
| Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record | 107 |
| LEBAlocation not on record | 81 |
| Zürich, CH | 72 |
| FEBlocation not on record | 72 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 65 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 52 |
| Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau Frick | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Fricklocation not on record | 48 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 45 |
| Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record | 42 |
| TMPMlocation not on record | 35 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 35 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 33 |
| Vitoria, ES | 31 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 30 |
| Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record | 28 |
| Tartu, EE | 26 |
| NMOKlocation not on record | 25 |
| HAFLlocation not on record | 25 |
| Olocation not on record | 24 |
| Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record | 24 |
| Helsinki, FI | 24 |
| University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record | 21 |
| EIBElocation not on record | 19 |
| Paro, BT | 19 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 19 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 18 |
| Kuopio, FI | 17 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 15 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 15 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 15 |
| Salzburg, AT | 13 |
| NCMGlocation not on record | 13 |
| IPEM TASlocation not on record | 10 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 10 |
| neflocation not on record | 10 |
| Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record | 10 |
| SFRAlocation not on record | 10 |
| Dhaka, BD | 9 |
| Fribourg, CH | 9 |
| EGBlocation not on record | 9 |
| Veterinary Laboratory Agencylocation not on record | 8 |
| GMBRClocation not on record | 8 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 8 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 7 |
| Tromsø, NO | 6 |
| Tallinn, EE | 6 |
| Philadelphia, US | 6 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 6 |
| ZIBElocation not on record | 5 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 5 |
| Tilburg, NL | 5 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 4 |
| Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Cambridge, US | 4 |
| LSMlocation not on record | 3 |
| Winterthur, CH | 3 |
| ZMAAlocation not on record | 3 |
| Leuphanalocation not on record | 3 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 2 |
| University of Tokyo, Department of Zoologylocation not on record | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| Trondheim, NO | 2 |
| Colorado State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Ugentlocation not on record | 1 |
| Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| IFR-DNFlocation not on record | 1 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Amara ovata 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
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
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.