Apamea sordens
(Hufnagel, 1766) · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Apamea sordens's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility128 762 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI294 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics240 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Apamea sordens, the rustic shoulder-knot or bordered apamea, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is distributed throughout Europe, east across the Palearctic to Central Asia and to China and Japan. It also occurs in North America (Labrador to Virginia, west across Canada, south to Minnesota). This moth has a wingspan of 36 to 42 mm. The forewings are brown with mostly indistinct markings except for the narrow black mark at the base of the wing which gives the species its common name. The hindwings are greyish brown, darker towards the margins, with prominent dark venation. This moth flies at night and is attracted to light and sugar.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Diet & foraging2
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 sordens has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ 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.
The complete instruction manual Apamea sordens 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
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).
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.
Record type128 762 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions31 of 81 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 | 2 123 |
| Helsinki, FI | 700 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 452 |
| Zürich, CH | 178 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 140 |
| Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record | 123 |
| Colorado State Universitylocation not on record | 104 |
| Kuopio, FI | 95 |
| Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record | 92 |
| Tartu, EE | 88 |
| ZMAAlocation not on record | 85 |
| University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record | 79 |
| East Lansing, US | 77 |
| New Haven, US | 76 |
| Bern, CH | 71 |
| Geneva, CH | 67 |
| Salzburg, AT | 66 |
| Paro, BT | 58 |
| Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record | 56 |
| Philadelphia, US | 56 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 55 |
| Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record | 54 |
| Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record | 52 |
| Naturama Aargaulocation not on record | 47 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 47 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 45 |
| Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record | 44 |
| University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 40 |
| Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record | 40 |
| Podgorica, ME | 33 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 31 |
| NMOKlocation not on record | 24 |
| Tromsø, NO | 20 |
| UMUlocation not on record | 20 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 20 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 20 |
| Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record | 19 |
| Cambridge, US | 19 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 17 |
| Dhaka, BD | 16 |
| North Carolina State University Insect Museumlocation not on record | 15 |
| Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record | 15 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 15 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 15 |
| Sion, CH | 13 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 13 |
| Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record | 13 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 13 |
| Iwate Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 12 |
| SFRAlocation not on record | 11 |
| Brussels, BE | 10 |
| Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record | 9 |
| Winterthur, CH | 8 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 8 |
| Tallinn, EE | 8 |
| Stockholm, SE | 7 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 7 |
| KIRMlocation not on record | 7 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 6 |
| Glarus, CH | 6 |
| DABUHlocation not on record | 6 |
| Fribourg, CH | 6 |
| Washington, US | 4 |
| Edmonton, CA | 4 |
| Decorah, US | 3 |
| US | 2 |
| SOVTlocation not on record | 2 |
| Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 2 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 2 |
| Vernal, US | 2 |
| OSUClocation not on record | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| WWUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| UDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Research Collection of G. Orhantlocation not on record | 1 |
| ЗИН РАНlocation not on record | 1 |
| Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Apamea sordens 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
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
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.