Amauris tartarea

Mabille, 1876 · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Nymphalidae/Amauris

At a glance

Occurrence records227

Data sources7

Biological traits0

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Amauris tartarea's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility227 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF227 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens

Genome at a glanceGoaT2n = 40

01Narrative

Amauris tartarea, the monk or dusky friar, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia. The habitat consists of various types of forests. Adult males mud-puddle and imbibe pyrrolizidine alkaloids from Heliotropium species, especially from the roots of dug-up plants. Both sexes are attracted to flowers. The species is mimicked by Hypolimnas anthedon. The larvae feed on Asclepiadaceae and Brassica species.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding2 specimens

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 Amauris tartarea has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

BINs1

Marker genes1

Countries2

Marker genes sequenced

★ 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

06Genome at a glanceGoaT

The complete instruction manual Amauris tartarea 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.

Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged

2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.

Chromosomes2n = 40 n = 20

Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references

2n 371×GoaT · de Vos et al. 2020

GoaT · de Vos et al. 2020 — ↗

2n 401×GoaT · de Vos et al. 2020

GoaT · de Vos et al. 2020 — ↗

2n 771×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database

GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database — ↗

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type227 records

Wild obs. + sensor103

Museum / vouchered124

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO408 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 accuracy84% within 1 km

≤100 m 23≤1 km 20≤10 km 7>10 km 1

51 georeferenced · 52 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor103

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 accuracy1% within 1 km

≤1 km 1≤10 km 74>10 km 27

102 georeferenced · 22 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence124

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 institutions4 of 8 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	72
Cambridge, US	27
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record	11
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record	10
Zürich, CH	1
Stockholm, SE	1
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record	1
MZLUlocation not on record	1

8 institutions · 124 of 124 vouchered records shown

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