Argia tonto

Calvert, 1902 · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Odonata/Coenagrionidae/Argia

At a glance

Occurrence records873

Data sources8

Biological traits0

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections1

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Argia tonto's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility873 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

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 & distributionGBIF873 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

Argia tonto, the Tonto dancer, is a species of narrow-winged damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is found in Central America and North America. The IUCN conservation status of Argia tonto is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding1 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 Argia tonto has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections1

Countries1

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 type873 records

Wild obs. + sensor608

Museum / vouchered265

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO632 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 accuracy91% within 1 km

≤100 m 241≤1 km 127≤10 km 30>10 km 5

403 georeferenced · 205 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor608

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 accuracy16% within 1 km

≤1 km 11≤10 km 52>10 km 6

69 georeferenced · 196 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence265

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 institutions7 of 9 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
Washington, US	53
New Haven, US	32
Odonata Centrallocation not on record	19
Champaign, US	9
University Park, US	8
Essig Museum of Entomologylocation not on record	6
Wuzhou, CN	4
East Lansing, US	3
Durango, MX	3

9 institutions · 137 of 265 vouchered records shown · 127 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Argia tonto 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 found1

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

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

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 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 median18.9 °C 18.9–18.9

Seasonal swing summer↔winter9.60 °C

Max temp (day)24.2 °C

Min temp (night)12.6 °C

Precipitation54.0 mm/mo

Air humidity57.3 %

Moisture balance-96.5 mm/mo

Vapour deficit926 Pa

Wind speed4.10 m/s

Cloud cover21.6 %

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · 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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