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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF141 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD5 specimens
01Narrative
Anthene princeps, the cupreous hairtail, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Africa. The wingspan is about 22–27 mm in males and 24–29 mm in females. The larvae feed on Albizia gummifera.
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 Anthene princeps has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens5
BINs2
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus5 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. 93% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 46 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)2.8%
Haplotypes3
BINs2
Most divergent pair7.0%
Africa
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 type141 records
Wild obs. + sensor122
Museum / vouchered19
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO332 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 accuracy91% within 1 km
≤100 m 24≤1 km 39≤10 km 5>10 km 1
69 georeferenced · 53 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor122
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 accuracy0% within 1 km
≤10 km 12>10 km 5
17 georeferenced · 2 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence19
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 4 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
New Haven, US
15
Cambridge, US
2
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record
1
African Butterfly Research Institutelocation not on record
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility141 records↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 specimens↗
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WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗