Amara quenseli is a species of seed-eating ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.
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 quenseli has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens394
BINs4
Marker genes2
eDNA detections357
Countries7
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus337 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. 97% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 21 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)1.8%
Haplotypes37
BINs4
Most divergent pair14.4%
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-5P18S-5P
animal barcoderibosomal
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type3 976 records
Wild obs. + sensor618
Museum / vouchered3 103
Fossil167
Other88
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO4 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 accuracy77% within 1 km
≤100 m 314≤1 km 128≤10 km 107>10 km 28
577 georeferenced · 41 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor618
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 accuracy74% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 066≤1 km 510≤10 km 465>10 km 77
2 118 georeferenced · 985 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence3 103
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 institutions22 of 58 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Tempe, US
861
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
442
Provo, US
320
Olocation not on record
142
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
130
Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record
117
Essig Museum of Entomologylocation not on record
114
NHMOlocation not on record
110
Edmonton, CA
84
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
76
Helsinki, FI
53
TMPMlocation not on record
48
Tromsø, NO
44
Metsähallituslocation not on record
38
NEON Biorepository at Arizona State Universitylocation not on record
36
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
32
Cambridge, US
29
Albuquerque, US
25
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
22
Espace pour la vielocation not on record
22
Salzburg, AT
18
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
18
National Ecological Observatory Network, United Stateslocation not on record
17
WIlocation not on record
17
Toronto, CA
16
Kuopio, FI
14
South Kensington, GB
13
Trondheim, NO
11
MZLUlocation not on record
11
Tartu, EE
10
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
9
San Francisco, US
9
Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record
9
Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record
7
Copenhagen, DK
6
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
6
Tallinn, EE
5
BioFokuslocation not on record
4
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
4
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
4
Saint John, CA
4
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
3
EWIClocation not on record
3
ZSMlocation not on record
2
Philadelphia, US
2
University of Alaska Museumlocation not on record
2
Wuzhou, CN
2
neflocation not on record
2
University of Alabamalocation not on record
2
LSMlocation not on record
2
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
Research Collection of G. Pohllocation not on record
1
NCMGlocation not on record
1
Champaign, US
1
US
1
University Park, US
1
OSUClocation not on record
1
ZMAAlocation not on record
1
58 institutions · 2 985 of 3 103 vouchered records shown · 115 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA357 detections
Where the DNA of Amara quenseli 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 found357
Studies independent surveys1
Countries7
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
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 median14.8 °C 9.80–22.1
Seasonal swing summer↔winter26.1 °C
Max temp (day)21.5 °C 14.1–29.6
Min temp (night)8.50 °C 4.30–15.4
Precipitation56.2 mm/mo 24.7–118
Air humidity51.6 % 43.3–62.1
Moisture balance-67.9 mm/mo -138–29.0
Vapour deficit792 Pa 489–1,409
Wind speed2.70 m/s 2.10–4.80
Cloud cover29.5 % 20.1–45.8
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 347 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 Facility3 976 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI357 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics394 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗