Apamea lithoxylaea, the light arches, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is distributed throughout Europe, the Caucasus, Armenia, Asia Minor and Turkey, and ranges east to the Altai Mountains. Museum specimen
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 Apamea lithoxylaea has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens56
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections95
Countries13
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus55 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. 100% of positions are identical in every specimen.
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)0.03%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.46%
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
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualApamea lithoxylaea 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≈577 732 613 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 Apamea lithoxylaea0.58 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
Completeness98.8% BUSCO
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type110 278 records
Wild obs. + sensor106 625
Museum / vouchered3 451
Other202
Origin
Native1 833
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO52 004 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 accuracy8% within 1 km
≤100 m 6 759≤1 km 2 188≤10 km 96 612>10 km 62
105 621 georeferenced · 1 004 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor106 625
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 accuracy46% within 1 km
≤100 m 946≤1 km 508≤10 km 1 617>10 km 108
3 179 georeferenced · 272 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence3 451
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 institutions21 of 61 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
DanishLepidopterologicalSocietylocation not on record
985
Helsinki, FI
382
Zürich, CH
216
Bern, CH
135
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
95
Geneva, CH
88
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
77
Salzburg, AT
75
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
75
Paro, BT
69
Tartu, EE
68
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
65
Naturama Aargaulocation not on record
45
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
42
MZLUlocation not on record
41
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
36
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
36
Frauenfeld, CH
33
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
33
NHMOlocation not on record
32
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
29
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
29
Dhaka, BD
27
Podgorica, ME
20
CBDClocation not on record
20
Nijmegen, NL
19
Winterthur, CH
19
Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record
14
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
14
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record
14
Sion, CH
13
Kuopio, FI
12
UMUlocation not on record
12
Fribourg, CH
11
NMOKlocation not on record
11
Tallinn, EE
10
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
10
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
10
Glarus, CH
8
ZMAAlocation not on record
8
DABUHlocation not on record
8
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
7
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
6
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
6
Musée de Saint-Imierlocation not on record
4
Stockholm, SE
4
BioFokuslocation not on record
3
NCMGlocation not on record
3
South Kensington, GB
3
ZSMlocation not on record
3
SFRAlocation not on record
3
KSSlocation not on record
2
Landesmuseum Kärntenlocation not on record
1
Rovaniemi, FI
1
Ugentlocation not on record
1
Research Collection of Theo Gruenewaldlocation not on record
1
Philadelphia, US
1
ЗММУlocation not on record
1
ЗМ СО РАНlocation not on record
1
ЗМКУlocation not on record
1
Metsähallituslocation not on record
1
61 institutions · 2 999 of 3 451 vouchered records shown · 452 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA95 detections
Where the DNA of Apamea lithoxylaea 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 found95
Studies independent surveys3
Countries13
Verifiable raw sequence linked34
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 95 detections have coordinates
Open the map13 countries0
UrbanForet de MelajameadowPozzines a Carex intricata de Corse (D2.242)Pelouses siliceuses ouest-mediterraneennes (…
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 median15.5 °C 13.1–18.6
Seasonal swing summer↔winter17.0 °C
Max temp (day)18.8 °C 16.1–23.4
Min temp (night)11.2 °C 8.40–14.6
Precipitation68.3 mm/mo 46.6–102
Air humidity60.2 % 56.9–63.8
Moisture balance-48.3 mm/mo -99.5–3.10
Vapour deficit677 Pa 565–948
Wind speed3.60 m/s 2.00–5.00
Cloud cover39.8 % 32.5–50.5
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 93 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 Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility110 278 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI95 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics56 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗