Apoda limacodes, also known as the festoon, is a mainly nocturnal moth of the family Limacodidae. It is found in Europe, most commonly in Belgium and the Netherlands. The average wingspan of the moth is 20–30 mm. The moth usually flies between June and July. The festoon mainly inhabits thick woodlands, and it is primarily nocturnal, but it will occasionally fly in the daytime. Caterpillar The larvae are known to feed on oak and beech.
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 Apoda limacodes has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens47
BINs1
Marker genes3
eDNA detections43
Countries11
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus39 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.
Where individuals differ — all 2 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)0.13%
Haplotypes7
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.76%
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-3P★COI-5P18S-5P
animal barcoderibosomal
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualApoda limacodes 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≈800 335 453 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 Apoda limacodes0.80 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
Completeness98.4% BUSCO
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type52 092 records
Wild obs. + sensor44 305
Museum / vouchered7 455
Other332
Origin
Native3 235
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO38 268 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 accuracy28% within 1 km
≤100 m 7 827≤1 km 3 165≤10 km 27 720>10 km 129
38 841 georeferenced · 5 464 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor44 305
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 accuracy55% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 320≤1 km 1 581≤10 km 3 230>10 km 16
7 147 georeferenced · 308 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence7 455
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 institutions19 of 47 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
5 136
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
527
Zürich, CH
112
Tartu, EE
111
Salzburg, AT
81
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
65
Frauenfeld, CH
53
Tallinn, EE
51
Paro, BT
47
Dhaka, BD
45
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
40
Podgorica, ME
40
NMOKlocation not on record
36
NHMOlocation not on record
33
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
31
SFRAlocation not on record
31
DABUHlocation not on record
30
Nijmegen, NL
26
Geneva, CH
22
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
15
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
14
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
13
Philadelphia, US
11
Brussels, BE
11
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
11
Sion, CH
9
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
8
MZLUlocation not on record
8
Bern, CH
8
ZSMlocation not on record
7
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
6
Ugentlocation not on record
4
Cambridge, US
4
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
4
South Kensington, GB
3
Radicondoli, IT
3
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
3
CBDClocation not on record
2
Stockholm, SE
2
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
2
Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record
2
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
1
SZOPKlocation not on record
1
Helsinki, FI
1
Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record
1
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
1
BioFokuslocation not on record
1
47 institutions · 6 673 of 7 455 vouchered records shown · 782 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA43 detections
Where the DNA of Apoda limacodes 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 found43
Studies independent surveys1
Countries10
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 43 detections have coordinates
Open the map10 countries0
edge woodland/meadowQuercus robur
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 median17.7 °C 14.0–21.3
Seasonal swing summer↔winter17.6 °C
Max temp (day)22.1 °C 17.3–24.9
Min temp (night)13.1 °C 10.0–16.1
Precipitation72.3 mm/mo 31.7–146
Air humidity58.7 % 55.6–61.2
Moisture balance-52.1 mm/mo -127–31.3
Vapour deficit865 Pa 707–1,067
Wind speed2.70 m/s 2.00–3.80
Cloud cover36.1 % 31.3–39.4
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 40 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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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility52 092 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI43 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics47 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
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