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 Anthaxia quadripunctata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens54
BINs2
Marker genes1
eDNA detections51
Countries11
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus49 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. 95% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 35 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)1.9%
Haplotypes18
BINs2
Most divergent pair5.3%
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-5P
animal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type16 014 records
Wild obs. + sensor8 916
Museum / vouchered6 815
Cultivated / captive2
Other281
Origin
Native3 372
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO24 316 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 accuracy55% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 505≤1 km 1 991≤10 km 3 673>10 km 80
8 249 georeferenced · 667 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor8 916
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 accuracy22% within 1 km
≤100 m 596≤1 km 784≤10 km 4 703>10 km 102
6 185 georeferenced · 630 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence6 815
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 · 2 records without
Open the mapnot free-living2
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 institutions26 of 62 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
846
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
441
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
316
Bern, CH
309
Geneva, CH
267
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
238
Tartu, EE
190
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
185
Zürich, CH
181
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
175
Paro, BT
170
Brussels, BE
162
Trondheim, NO
158
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record
153
IFR-DNFlocation not on record
134
Fribourg, CH
120
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
109
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
102
Helsinki, FI
99
Dhaka, BD
87
Jyväskylä, FI
47
Olocation not on record
46
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
41
Philadelphia, US
37
NHMOlocation not on record
35
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
34
Salzburg, AT
26
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
22
Sion, CH
20
Oulu, FI
19
19
Frauenfeld, CH
18
neflocation not on record
17
BioFokuslocation not on record
16
ZSMlocation not on record
15
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
14
Tallinn, EE
13
Kuopio, FI
12
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
12
Winterthur, CH
11
NMOKlocation not on record
11
Metsähallituslocation not on record
10
LSMlocation not on record
9
TMPMlocation not on record
8
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
8
Copenhagen, DK
7
MZLUlocation not on record
7
ZMAAlocation not on record
7
Tromsø, NO
6
Tilburg, NL
4
University of Sydney, Macleay Museumlocation not on record
4
South Kensington, GB
3
Department of Molecular Biodiversity, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Scienceslocation not on record
3
IZNElocation not on record
3
University of Tokyo, Department of Zoologylocation not on record
2
Musée de l'Hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernardlocation not on record
2
Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record
2
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
1
Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria - AGROSAVIAlocation not on record
1
Saint John, CA
1
Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record
1
Rovaniemi, FI
1
62 institutions · 5 017 of 6 815 vouchered records shown · 1 798 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 DNA51 detections
Where the DNA of Anthaxia quadripunctata 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 found51
Studies independent surveys1
Countries10
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 51 detections have coordinates
Open the map10 countries0
Waldrand, Halbtrockenrasenan Wegrainen gekeschert und geklopftNadelwaldForestforest edgeHay meadow
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 median15.4 °C 9.50–18.0
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.8 °C
Max temp (day)19.1 °C 13.4–22.0
Min temp (night)10.9 °C 4.00–13.5
Precipitation97.3 mm/mo 63.3–154
Air humidity60.0 % 57.6–64.2
Moisture balance-12.3 mm/mo -59.9–43.6
Vapour deficit706 Pa 446–872
Wind speed3.00 m/s 2.10–4.20
Cloud cover36.8 % 32.7–49.3
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 50 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 Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility16 014 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI51 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics54 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗