Anartia jatrophae
(Linnaeus, 1763) · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Anartia jatrophae's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
Animal Diversity WebUniv. of Michigan MZspecies account↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility33 881 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI117 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics89 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Anartia jatrophae, the white peacock, is a species of butterfly found in the southeastern United States, Central America, and throughout much of South America. The white peacock's larval hosts are water hyssop (Bacopa monnieri), lemon bacopa (Bacopa caroliniensis), tropical waterhyssop (Bacopa innominata), frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora), lanceleaf frogfruit (Phyla lanceolata), and Carolina wild petunia (Ruellia caroliniana). The males of the species display a unique territorial behavior, in which they stake out a territory typically 15 meters in diameter that contains larval host plants. They perch in this area and aggressively protect it from other insects and other male white peacocks.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
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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 Anartia jatrophae 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.
The complete instruction manual Anartia jatrophae 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.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type33 881 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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions24 of 60 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 | 192 |
| Caja de Compensación Familiar - Comfenalco Antioquialocation not on record | 53 |
| Grupo Prodecolocation not on record | 46 |
| Cambridge, US | 42 |
| Mayagüez, PR | 40 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 35 |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record | 31 |
| Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record | 30 |
| University of Central Floridalocation not on record | 28 |
| OSUClocation not on record | 26 |
| Universidad de los Llanos (UniLlanos)location not on record | 19 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 18 |
| San Diego, US | 18 |
| Tartu, EE | 17 |
| Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó (UTCH)location not on record | 17 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 14 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 12 |
| PUC-RSlocation not on record | 11 |
| Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record | 10 |
| Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record | 10 |
| Auckland, NZ | 9 |
| Universidad del Valle (UniValle)location not on record | 8 |
| Washington, US | 8 |
| University Park, US | 7 |
| Philadelphia, US | 7 |
| Universidad del Magdalena (UniMagdalena)location not on record | 5 |
| Sanda, JP | 5 |
| San Luis Potosí, MX | 4 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 4 |
| University, National Zoological Collection of Surinamelocation not on record | 4 |
| Blacksburg, US | 4 |
| Universidad de Sucre (UniSucre)location not on record | 4 |
| Tapachula, MX | 2 |
| Universidad del Quindío (UniQuindío)location not on record | 2 |
| Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 2 |
| Champaign, US | 2 |
| Saint John, CA | 2 |
| Hartland Nature Clublocation not on record | 2 |
| Universidad del Atlántico (UniAtlantico)location not on record | 2 |
| US | 2 |
| Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 2 |
| Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 1 |
| University of Pennsylvanialocation not on record | 1 |
| Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record | 1 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 1 |
| Ambiental Consultores y Cía Ltda.location not on record | 1 |
| Universidad del Vallelocation not on record | 1 |
| Brussels, BE | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| UNHClocation not on record | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Research Collection of Victor Gonzalezlocation not on record | 1 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 1 |
| Salzburg, AT | 1 |
| CUlocation not on record | 1 |
| MX | 1 |
| Alcaldía Municipal de Garzón en Huilalocation not on record | 1 |
| Colorado State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Anartia jatrophae 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.