Ancistrocerus trifasciatus is a Palearctic species of potter wasp. BWARSEdward Saunders 1896, The Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Isles London. pdf us.archive Full text with illustrations]
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 Ancistrocerus trifasciatus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens59
BINs3
Marker genes2
eDNA detections170
Countries16
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus54 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. 97% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 22 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)0.94%
Haplotypes8
BINs3
Most divergent pair8.2%
Europe
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-5P18S-5P
animal barcoderibosomal
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type10 211 records
Wild obs. + sensor3 895
Museum / vouchered6 224
Cultivated / captive21
Other71
Origin
Native382
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO16 488 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 accuracy76% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 151≤1 km 693≤10 km 907>10 km 2
3 753 georeferenced · 142 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor3 895
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 accuracy45% within 1 km
≤100 m 862≤1 km 1 135≤10 km 2 389>10 km 59
4 445 georeferenced · 1 779 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence6 224
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 21 records without
Open the mapnot free-living21
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 institutions21 of 44 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Helsinki, FI
1 524
Philadelphia, US
1 378
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
497
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
404
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
370
Zürich, CH
247
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
116
Bern, CH
114
Trondheim, NO
113
NHMOlocation not on record
69
Tartu, EE
56
Paro, BT
55
Stockholm, SE
55
ZMAAlocation not on record
53
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
51
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
50
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
50
Tilburg, NL
43
Geneva, CH
40
Metsähallituslocation not on record
40
BioFokuslocation not on record
37
NCMGlocation not on record
33
neflocation not on record
31
NMOKlocation not on record
29
MZLUlocation not on record
14
Dhaka, BD
14
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
13
Bonn, DE
12
Gothenburg, SE
12
Rovaniemi, FI
12
Frauenfeld, CH
11
Kuopio, FI
10
ZSMlocation not on record
8
Tallinn, EE
7
Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record
6
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
6
CBDClocation not on record
5
Winterthur, CH
2
Sion, CH
2
South Kensington, GB
2
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
1
Ugentlocation not on record
1
US
1
Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record
1
44 institutions · 5 595 of 6 224 vouchered records shown · 629 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA170 detections
Where the DNA of Ancistrocerus trifasciatus 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 found170
Studies independent surveys4
Countries16
Verifiable raw sequence linked108
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 170 detections have coordinates
Open the map16 countries0
Hay meadow1.1. Boreal Forest|1. Forest & Woodland
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 median14.6 °C 8.80–17.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter19.5 °C
Max temp (day)18.9 °C 12.5–21.2
Min temp (night)11.2 °C 4.70–13.8
Precipitation76.3 mm/mo 57.3–112
Air humidity60.0 % 58.0–63.5
Moisture balance-33.9 mm/mo -64.5–14.7
Vapour deficit690 Pa 457–807
Wind speed3.20 m/s 2.20–4.10
Cloud cover48.0 % 38.6–54.7
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 154 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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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility10 211 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI170 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics59 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗