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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF242 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD11 specimens
01Narrative
Andropolia aedon is a moth in the family Noctuidae first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1880. It is found in North America from British Columbia and Alberta south to California. The wingspan is 42 -. Adults are on wing from July to August. The larvae feed on Alnus, Acer, Holodiscus discolor and Physocarpus capitatus.
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 Andropolia aedon has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens11
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. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 5 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)0.23%
Haplotypes3
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.76%
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 type242 records
Wild obs. + sensor106
Museum / vouchered136
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO432 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 36≤1 km 21≤10 km 5>10 km 3
65 georeferenced · 41 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor106
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 accuracy97% within 1 km
≤100 m 35≤1 km 3≤10 km 1
39 georeferenced · 97 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence136
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 8 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
41
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
37
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
35
Vernal, US
7
WWUlocation not on record
5
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
3
East Lansing, US
2
National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record
1
8 institutions · 131 of 136 vouchered records shown · 5 without an institution code
