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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF1 450 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD12 specimens
01Narrative
The sunflower miner bee (Andrena helianthi) is a species of miner bee in the family Andrenidae. Another common name for this species is the sunflower andrena. It is found in North America.
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 Andrena helianthi has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens12
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus11 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 16 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)0.95%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.1%
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 type1 450 records
Wild obs. + sensor370
Museum / vouchered1 080
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 120 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 accuracy92% within 1 km
≤100 m 186≤1 km 111≤10 km 8>10 km 18
323 georeferenced · 47 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor370
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 accuracy43% within 1 km
≤100 m 22≤1 km 132≤10 km 194>10 km 14
362 georeferenced · 718 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 080
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 institutions15 of 27 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
226
Champaign, US
196
Beltsville, US
182
Wuzhou, CN
164
White River Junction, US
56
St. Paul, US
46
Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record
43
WIlocation not on record
37
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
35
Cambridge, US
14
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
11
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomologylocation not on record
8
Philadelphia, US
6
Albuquerque, US
6
LULlocation not on record
6
Awka, NG
5
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
4
Chicago, US
4
New Haven, US
3
Decorah, US
3
OSUClocation not on record
3
US
2
New Haven, US
2
FWSlocation not on record
2
UNHClocation not on record
2
Zadock Thompson Natural History Collection, University of Vermontlocation not on record
2
WSUClocation not on record
1
27 institutions · 1 069 of 1 080 vouchered records shown · 11 without an institution code
