Anotylus rugosus is a species of spiny-legged rove beetle in the family Staphylinidae. It is found in Africa, Australia, Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China), and 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 Anotylus rugosus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens88
BINs3
Marker genes3
eDNA detections457
Countries10
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus73 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)0.82%
Haplotypes10
BINs3
Most divergent pair15.7%
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-5P18S-5P
animal barcoderibosomal
07Deep time0.77–0.01 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 range0.77–0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Dated fossil finds16
StatusStill living record runs to the present
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 Anotylus rugosus. 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 type11 517 records
Wild obs. + sensor7 301
Museum / vouchered2 695
Cultivated / captive11
Fossil1 497
Other13
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO17 900 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 accuracy80% within 1 km
≤100 m 3 877≤1 km 1 627≤10 km 1 326>10 km 14
6 844 georeferenced · 457 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor7 301
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 accuracy71% within 1 km
≤100 m 786≤1 km 545≤10 km 491>10 km 64
1 886 georeferenced · 809 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 695
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 · 11 records without
Open the mapnot free-living11
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 institutions18 of 56 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
452
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
229
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
181
Helsinki, FI
154
Luhanskyi Nature Reserve, Stanychno-Luhanskyi Division,location not on record
103
State Museum of Nature History, Lvivlocation not on record
101
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
84
Olocation not on record
81
NHMOlocation not on record
67
I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyivlocation not on record
59
Metsähallituslocation not on record
54
CBDClocation not on record
47
Tilburg, NL
46
Trondheim, NO
44
Tartu, EE
36
TMPMlocation not on record
27
Salzburg, AT
27
Jyväskylä, FI
27
NMOKlocation not on record
26
BioFokuslocation not on record
23
ZSMlocation not on record
18
neflocation not on record
18
NCMGlocation not on record
16
Kuopio, FI
15
Tromsø, NO
15
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record
15
LSMlocation not on record
14
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
13
Copenhagen, DK
12
ZMAAlocation not on record
12
CUlocation not on record
12
Philadelphia, US
10
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
10
Akademia Pomorska w Słupskulocation not on record
9
Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record
9
South Kensington, GB
9
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
8
Tallinn, EE
8
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
7
IFR-DNFlocation not on record
5
Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record
5
MZLUlocation not on record
4
Stockholm, SE
4
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record
3
University of Guelphlocation not on record
3
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
2
Ugentlocation not on record
2
Ghent, BE
2
University Park, US
2
University of Oulu, Zoological Museumlocation not on record
1
Saint John, CA
1
Auckland, NZ
1
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
1
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record
1
Oulu, FI
1
56 institutions · 2 137 of 2 695 vouchered records shown · 543 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 DNA457 detections
Where the DNA of Anotylus rugosus 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 found457
Studies independent surveys5
Countries10
Verifiable raw sequence linked69
Signal confidence: moderateweighed 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 median14.4 °C 7.60–16.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter15.9 °C
Max temp (day)17.6 °C 10.8–20.2
Min temp (night)10.8 °C 3.70–13.0
Precipitation66.5 mm/mo 57.3–75.8
Air humidity60.8 % 59.2–62.3
Moisture balance-53.8 mm/mo -66.6–3.90
Vapour deficit642 Pa 397–709
Wind speed4.20 m/s 2.90–5.00
Cloud cover43.9 % 38.3–53.1
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 451 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 Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility11 501 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI457 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics88 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗