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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF3 144 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD66 specimens
01Narrative
Anaea aidea, the tropical leafwing, is a species of brush-footed butterfly (family Nymphalidae) in the subfamily Charaxinae. Its native range extends from Mexico to northwestern Costa Rica, with strays sometimes seen in southern Texas, Arizona, and California in the United States. Some authors consider Anaea aidea to be a subspecies of Anaea troglodyta. It has a wingspan of 57 -. The larvae feed on Croton species. Adults feeding Caterpillar
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 Anaea aidea has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens66
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries3
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus62 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. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 6 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)0.42%
Haplotypes18
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.7%
N.America
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 type3 144 records
Wild obs. + sensor2 889
Museum / vouchered255
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO4 704 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 accuracy87% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 185≤1 km 658≤10 km 206>10 km 68
2 117 georeferenced · 772 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor2 889
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 accuracy61% within 1 km
≤100 m 120≤1 km 19≤10 km 74>10 km 15
228 georeferenced · 27 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence255
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 institutions12 of 20 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Mexico City, MX
56
New Haven, US
33
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
14
Vernal, US
13
Cambridge, US
11
San Diego, US
11
Universidad del Valle de Guatemalalocation not on record
10
Zürich, CH
8
Washington, US
8
ASUlocation not on record
4
University of Pennsylvanialocation not on record
3
US
3
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
2
Philadelphia, US
1
CUlocation not on record
1
Denver, US
1
Brussels, BE
1
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
1
Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
Blacksburg, US
1
20 institutions · 183 of 255 vouchered records shown · 72 without an institution code
