The snow miner bee (Andrena nivalis) is a species of miner bee in the family Andrenidae. Another common name for this species is the snowy miner. 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 nivalis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens102
BINs2
Marker genes1
eDNA detections108
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus96 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 11 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)0.70%
Haplotypes18
BINs2
Most divergent pair2.3%
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 724 records
Wild obs. + sensor42
Museum / vouchered1 682
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 712 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 accuracy88% within 1 km
≤100 m 17≤1 km 19≤10 km 3>10 km 2
41 georeferenced · 1 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor42
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 accuracy46% within 1 km
≤100 m 36≤1 km 128≤10 km 179>10 km 16
359 georeferenced · 1 323 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 682
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 40 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
204
WIlocation not on record
155
Beltsville, US
150
141
US
140
White River Junction, US
110
Zadock Thompson Natural History Collection, University of Vermontlocation not on record
92
Wuzhou, CN
89
St. Paul, US
80
University Park, US
74
Champaign, US
69
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomologylocation not on record
44
UNHClocation not on record
39
WSUClocation not on record
39
Cambridge, US
32
Saint John, CA
31
New Haven, US
23
New Haven, US
15
Vancouver, CA
10
BBSLlocation not on record
9
Toronto, CA
7
OSUClocation not on record
7
FWSlocation not on record
7
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
6
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
5
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
4
University of Nebraska State Museumlocation not on record
4
Vermont Center for Ecostudieslocation not on record
4
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
3
Roberts Creek, CA
3
Mississippi State, US
3
Middlebury Collegelocation not on record
3
LULlocation not on record
3
Nelson, CA
2
Edmonton, CA
2
University of Manitoba, Wallis Roughley Museum of Entomologylocation not on record
2
Toronto, CA
1
Chicago, US
1
University of Alabamalocation not on record
1
Sherwood Park, CA
1
40 institutions · 1 615 of 1 682 vouchered records shown · 67 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA108 detections
Where the DNA of Andrena nivalis 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 found108
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
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 median10.9 °C 4.00–16.7
Seasonal swing summer↔winter25.1 °C
Max temp (day)16.7 °C 8.20–22.8
Min temp (night)4.70 °C -1.60–12.2
Precipitation77.6 mm/mo 30.0–106
Air humidity53.8 % 51.8–60.4
Moisture balance-47.8 mm/mo -91.1–-2.70
Vapour deficit572 Pa 377–861
Wind speed3.00 m/s 2.20–4.10
Cloud cover41.6 % 38.0–48.0
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 99 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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 724 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI108 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics102 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗