The common furniture beetle or common house borer (Anobium punctatum) is a woodboring beetle originally from Europe but now distributed worldwide. In the larval stage it bores in wood and feeds upon it. Adult Anobium punctatum measure 2.7 – in length. They have brown ellipsoidal bodies with a prothorax resembling a monk's cowl.
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 Anobium punctatum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens44
BINs1
Marker genes3
eDNA detections36
Countries7
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus28 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 6 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)0.38%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.91%
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-3P★COI-5PCYTB
animal barcodemitochondrial
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualAnobium punctatum carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Genome size≈349 952 806 bp assembly estimate
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
THIS GENOME Anobium punctatum0.35 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
Assembly levelChromosome
Completeness99.1% BUSCO
07Deep time1.8–0.13 Ma
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
Fossil range1.8–0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Dated fossil finds7
StatusNot recorded since 0.13 Ma
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Anobium punctatum. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
fossil range (PBDB)each dot = one dated find
How it livedPBDB
Environmentterrestrial
Motilityactively mobile
Compositionchitin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type7 273 records
Wild obs. + sensor4 068
Museum / vouchered1 781
Cultivated / captive1
Fossil845
Other578
Origin
Native430
Introduced91
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO9 708 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 accuracy70% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 713≤1 km 893≤10 km 938>10 km 195
3 739 georeferenced · 329 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor4 068
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 accuracy31% within 1 km
≤100 m 217≤1 km 187≤10 km 769>10 km 123
1 296 georeferenced · 485 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 781
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 · 1 records without
Open the mapnot free-living1
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 institutions25 of 65 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
DPIlocation not on record
169
Bern, CH
154
Zürich, CH
114
UAclocation not on record
91
Geneva, CH
87
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
86
MWLRlocation not on record
67
Dhaka, BD
63
Paro, BT
51
Auckland, NZ
50
Olocation not on record
48
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
42
Helsinki, FI
38
New Zealand Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
36
NHMOlocation not on record
33
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
32
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
31
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
31
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallerylocation not on record
30
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
22
Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record
21
Tilburg, NL
21
Tartu, EE
18
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
18
NMOKlocation not on record
16
Fribourg, CH
16
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
16
CBDClocation not on record
16
Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record
13
Tallinn, EE
12
NCMGlocation not on record
12
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
11
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
10
Salzburg, AT
9
Philadelphia, US
9
South Kensington, GB
9
Museums Victorialocation not on record
8
Copenhagen, DK
8
Ugentlocation not on record
7
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
7
MZLUlocation not on record
7
neflocation not on record
6
Frauenfeld, CH
6
Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record
6
Cape Town, ZA
5
Vitoria, ES
5
Tromsø, NO
5
Winterthur, CH
4
BioFokuslocation not on record
4
Trondheim, NO
4
Naturhistorisches Museum Wienlocation not on record
2
QVMAGlocation not on record
2
Musée de l'Hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernardlocation not on record
2
Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record
2
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
2
University of Sydney, Macleay Museumlocation not on record
1
Cambridge, US
1
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
1
ZSMlocation not on record
1
IFR-DNFlocation not on record
1
WULS-DFPElocation not on record
1
Lexington, US
1
KwaZulu-Natal Museumlocation not on record
1
Champaign, US
1
Gothenburg, SE
1
65 institutions · 1 604 of 1 781 vouchered records shown · 170 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 DNA36 detections
Where the DNA of Anobium punctatum 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 found36
Studies independent surveys2
Countries6
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 36 detections have coordinates
Open the map6 countries0
UrbanHofgelände
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 median10.8 °C 8.70–16.6
Seasonal swing summer↔winter16.1 °C
Max temp (day)13.6 °C 11.9–20.3
Min temp (night)8.10 °C 4.30–13.6
Precipitation65.3 mm/mo 53.1–109
Air humidity61.1 % 56.6–64.7
Moisture balance-16.5 mm/mo -60.9–11.7
Vapour deficit540 Pa 450–799
Wind speed4.00 m/s 2.40–4.80
Cloud cover46.1 % 35.9–51.1
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 30 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 Foundation12 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility7 266 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI36 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics44 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗