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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF890 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD62 specimens
01Narrative
Apantesis vittata, the banded tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787. It is found in the United States from Maryland to Florida, west to Kentucky and Louisiana. The wingspan is 32–42 mm. Adults are on wing from March to October. The larvae feed on various herbs, including dandelions.
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 Apantesis vittata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens62
BINs2
Marker genes1
Countries1
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus62 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. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 7 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)0.75%
Haplotypes9
BINs2
Most divergent pair1.4%
N.America
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 type890 records
Wild obs. + sensor414
Museum / vouchered476
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 048 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 accuracy77% within 1 km
≤100 m 205≤1 km 51≤10 km 28>10 km 47
331 georeferenced · 83 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor414
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 accuracy32% within 1 km
≤100 m 20≤1 km 54≤10 km 130>10 km 30
234 georeferenced · 242 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence476
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 institutions15 of 29 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
CUlocation not on record
86
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
51
East Lansing, US
43
New Haven, US
40
North Carolina State University Insect Museumlocation not on record
30
Mississippi State, US
29
Provo, US
21
King Saud Universitylocation not on record
18
St. Paul, US
18
UNHClocation not on record
18
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
11
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
8
UDlocation not on record
8
OSUClocation not on record
6
Toronto, CA
6
Ciudad de México, MX
5
Champaign, US
5
University of Central Floridalocation not on record
4
Chicago, US
2
Denver, US
2
Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
2
Zürich, CH
1
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
Philadelphia, US
1
University Park, US
1
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
1
Saint John, CA
1
University of Alabamalocation not on record
1
Albuquerque, US
1
29 institutions · 421 of 476 vouchered records shown · 55 without an institution code
