Anax concolor

Brauer, 1865 · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Odonata/Aeshnidae/Anax

At a glance

Occurrence records249

Data sources8

Biological traits0

DNA specimens10

eDNA detections7

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Anax concolor's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility249 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI7 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics10 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

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 & distributionGBIF249 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 2 countries7 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD10 specimens

01Narrative

Anax concolor, the blue-spotted comet, is a species of darner in the dragonfly family Aeshnidae. It is found in Central America and South America. The IUCN conservation status of Anax concolor is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable. The IUCN status was reviewed in 2017.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding10 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 Anax concolor has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens10

BINs1

Marker genes2

eDNA detections7

Countries3

The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen

COI-5P778 bp consensus4 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. 95% of positions are identical in every specimen.

Where individuals differ — all 41 variable positions, in barcode order

15Cvariable

18Avariable

27Avariable

33Avariable

75Avariable

84Cvariable

102Avariable

129Avariable

135Cvariable

162Avariable

225Avariable

258Avariable

261Avariable

264Avariable

315Cvariable

321Avariable

339Avariable

357Avariable

363Cvariable

379Cvariable

408Avariable

411Avariable

414Cvariable

429Cvariable

441Avariable

444Avariable

447Avariable

456Cvariable

480Cvariable

498Gvariable

513Cvariable

516Cvariable

606Avariable

627Avariable

661Gvariable

690Cvariable

699Cvariable

714Cvariable

720Avariable

728Avariable

777Gmostly conserved

TCTCATATTATTGCCCAAGAAAGAGGAAAAAAAGAAACATTTGGTCTTTTAGGAATAATTTATGCTATAGTAGCAATTGGAATCTTAGGA …

Variant network

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)3.5%

Haplotypes3

BINs0

Most divergent pair5.3%

N.AmericaS.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.

Anax walsinghamisame genus10.4%Inurois tenuissame order12.5%Trechus saxicolasame order13.7%Aphaenops cerberussame order14.2%Aphaenops crypticolasame order14.3%

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★ITS1

animal barcodefungal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type249 records

Wild obs. + sensor223

Museum / vouchered26

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO476 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 106≤1 km 18≤10 km 26>10 km 11

161 georeferenced · 62 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor223

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 accuracy73% within 1 km

≤100 m 11≤10 km 4

15 georeferenced · 11 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence26

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 institutions2 of 6 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	12
Odonata Centrallocation not on record	1
Durango, MX	1
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomologylocation not on record	1
Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Costa Ricalocation not on record	1
National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record	1

6 institutions · 17 of 26 vouchered records shown · 5 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA7 detections

Where the DNA of Anax concolor 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 found7

Studies independent surveys1

Countries2

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 7 detections have coordinates

Open the map2 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 median25.6 °C 22.0–25.6

Seasonal swing summer↔winter4.50 °C

Max temp (day)30.1 °C 26.7–30.1

Min temp (night)21.7 °C 18.5–21.7

Precipitation126 mm/mo 126–159

Air humidity62.9 % 62.2–64.2

Moisture balance-31.1 mm/mo -31.1–9.80

Vapour deficit1,213 Pa 977–1,213

Wind speed2.60 m/s 1.00–2.60

Cloud cover63.5 % 13.7–63.5

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 5 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.

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