Ammoconia caecimacula is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in most of Europe, except southern Spain, Great Britain, Ireland and northern Fennoscandia. It is also present in Anatolia, northern Asia and western Turkestan. In the east the species is represented by subspecies transcaucasica and sibirica. The wingspan is 35–48 mm. Adults are on wing from August to October or November. The larvae feed on various plants, including Cephalanthera damasonium, Rumex, Galium, Scrophularia, Genista, Taraxacum and Silene. They prefer the flowers and fruit.
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 Ammoconia caecimacula has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens39
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections38
Countries7
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus37 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. 98% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 13 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)0.70%
Haplotypes13
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.7%
EuropeAsia
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-5P
animal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type27 340 records
Wild obs. + sensor20 070
Museum / vouchered6 524
Other746
Origin
Native2 114
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO17 776 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 accuracy63% within 1 km
≤100 m 7 401≤1 km 4 267≤10 km 6 807>10 km 143
18 618 georeferenced · 1 452 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor20 070
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 accuracy44% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 067≤1 km 1 717≤10 km 3 399>10 km 109
6 292 georeferenced · 232 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence6 524
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 59 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
DanishLepidopterologicalSocietylocation not on record
2 450
Helsinki, FI
776
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
728
Zürich, CH
248
Bern, CH
225
NHMOlocation not on record
133
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
111
Geneva, CH
101
Dhaka, BD
85
Salzburg, AT
81
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
72
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
61
Tartu, EE
61
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
52
Sion, CH
49
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
48
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
39
Paro, BT
37
Naturama Aargaulocation not on record
36
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
36
ZMAAlocation not on record
33
Frauenfeld, CH
32
Podgorica, ME
32
Philadelphia, US
31
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
31
MZLUlocation not on record
25
Nijmegen, NL
23
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
21
Fribourg, CH
20
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
20
Winterthur, CH
19
Tallinn, EE
18
SFRAlocation not on record
16
Kuopio, FI
16
Glarus, CH
13
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
13
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
9
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
8
UMUlocation not on record
8
Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record
8
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
8
Musée de Saint-Imierlocation not on record
7
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
7
ZSMlocation not on record
5
Stockholm, SE
5
Metsähallituslocation not on record
5
Radicondoli, IT
3
Ugentlocation not on record
2
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
2
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
2
KSSlocation not on record
2
BioFokuslocation not on record
2
МПХУlocation not on record
2
Tromsø, NO
2
DABUHlocation not on record
1
RMZlocation not on record
1
ННПМ НАНУlocation not on record
1
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
1
Rovaniemi, FI
1
59 institutions · 5 884 of 6 524 vouchered records shown · 640 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA38 detections
Where the DNA of Ammoconia caecimacula 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 found38
Studies independent surveys1
Countries7
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 38 detections have coordinates
Open the map7 countries0
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 median11.1 °C 7.80–15.6
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.9 °C
Max temp (day)14.8 °C 11.8–19.4
Min temp (night)7.80 °C 2.70–11.7
Precipitation68.6 mm/mo 53.7–169
Air humidity61.6 % 59.7–65.1
Moisture balance5.70 mm/mo -20.3–113
Vapour deficit501 Pa 408–716
Wind speed2.90 m/s 2.00–4.00
Cloud cover41.3 % 38.1–46.6
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 38 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 Foundation4 languages↗
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility27 340 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI38 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics39 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗