Arichanna melanaria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found over most of Europe (except Great Britain, the Benelux, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Greece), Mongolia, east to Japan. Arichanna melanaria on a German stamp The wingspan is 36–42 mm. Adults are on wing from June to September depending on the location. The larvae feed on the leaves of Vaccinium uliginosum, Vaccinium oxycoccos and Rhododendron tomentosum.
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 Arichanna melanaria has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens195
BINs5
Marker genes3
eDNA detections153
Countries10
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P633 bp consensus190 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. 92% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 48 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)3.5%
Haplotypes29
BINs5
Most divergent pair11.8%
AsiaEuropeOther
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
07Deep time~12.8 Ma lineage
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin12.8 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type19 299 records
Wild obs. + sensor16 829
Museum / vouchered2 416
Other54
Origin
Native71
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO21 512 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 accuracy68% within 1 km
≤100 m 6 657≤1 km 3 987≤10 km 4 793>10 km 122
15 559 georeferenced · 1 270 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor16 829
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 accuracy73% within 1 km
≤100 m 931≤1 km 582≤10 km 504>10 km 44
2 061 georeferenced · 355 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 416
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 institutions17 of 46 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
682
Tartu, EE
166
Kuopio, FI
117
NHMOlocation not on record
93
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
75
NSMKlocation not on record
73
Helsinki, FI
61
ZMAAlocation not on record
58
Hiwa Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
57
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
54
Philadelphia, US
52
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
47
Salzburg, AT
41
HUNMlocation not on record
39
Zürich, CH
38
Metsähallituslocation not on record
35
JP
34
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
33
Glarus, CH
32
Bern, CH
20
Tallinn, EE
17
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
16
Tromsø, NO
13
Rovaniemi, FI
13
DABUHlocation not on record
12
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
9
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
9
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
9
Stockholm, SE
8
KIRMlocation not on record
8
ZSMlocation not on record
7
KNAMlocation not on record
7
MZLUlocation not on record
4
Toyota city nature sanctuarylocation not on record
3
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
3
Paro, BT
2
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
2
Geneva, CH
2
Sanda, JP
2
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record
2
Naturama Aargaulocation not on record
2
New Haven, US
1
YPIMlocation not on record
1
University of Marylandlocation not on record
1
BioFokuslocation not on record
1
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
1
46 institutions · 1 962 of 2 416 vouchered records shown · 454 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA153 detections
Where the DNA of Arichanna melanaria 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 found153
Studies independent surveys3
Countries10
Verifiable raw sequence linked19
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 153 detections have coordinates
Open the map10 countries0
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 median15.8 °C 12.0–22.5
Seasonal swing summer↔winter26.2 °C
Max temp (day)19.1 °C 16.2–26.1
Min temp (night)11.6 °C 5.90–17.2
Precipitation101 mm/mo 74.4–183
Air humidity59.6 % 58.0–65.6
Moisture balance-8.70 mm/mo -34.2–58.0
Vapour deficit749 Pa 559–1,054
Wind speed2.10 m/s 1.80–3.00
Cloud cover42.8 % 35.5–54.8
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 54 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 Facility19 299 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI153 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics195 specimens↗
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