Anthene rubricinctus

(Holland, 1891) · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Lycaenidae/Anthene

At a glance

Occurrence records71

Data sources7

Biological traits0

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections3

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Anthene rubricinctus's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility71 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF71 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries3 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens

01Narrative

Anthene rubricinctus, the indigo ciliate blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. The habitat consists of forest, especially stream banks. Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers and males sometimes mud-puddle. The larvae feed on the flowers of Pterocarpus esculenta.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding2 specimens

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 rubricinctus has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections3

Countries2

Marker genes sequenced

★ 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 type71 records

Wild obs. + sensor22

Museum / vouchered49

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO112 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 accuracy86% within 1 km

≤100 m 9≤1 km 3≤10 km 2

14 georeferenced · 8 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor22

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 accuracy7% within 1 km

≤1 km 1≤10 km 4>10 km 9

14 georeferenced · 35 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence49

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 institutions1 of 5 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
African Butterfly Research Institutelocation not on record	24
Cambridge, US	13
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record	8
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record	3
MZLUlocation not on record	1

5 institutions · 49 of 49 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA3 detections

Where the DNA of Anthene rubricinctus 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 found3

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 3 detections have coordinates

Open the map1 country0

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 median24.9 °C 24.9–24.9

Seasonal swing summer↔winter1.70 °C

Max temp (day)29.2 °C 29.1–29.2

Min temp (night)21.5 °C 21.3–21.6

Precipitation212 mm/mo 198–227

Air humidity67.6 % 67.5–67.8

Moisture balance79.4 mm/mo 63.7–95.0

Vapour deficit1,014 Pa 1,008–1,019

Wind speed0.8 m/s 0.8–0.9

Cloud cover45.1 % 45.0–45.2

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 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.

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