Aricia artaxerxes
(Fabricius, 1793) · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Aricia artaxerxes's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility66 859 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI10 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics301 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.
The northern brown argus (Aricia artaxerxes) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found throughout much of the Palearctic realm.
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 Aricia artaxerxes 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 Aricia artaxerxes 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).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
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.
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
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.
Record type66 859 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.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions25 of 62 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Helsinki, FI | 1 095 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 384 |
| Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record | 360 |
| Zürich, CH | 231 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 206 |
| South Kensington, GB | 175 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 138 |
| Tromsø, NO | 132 |
| Tartu, EE | 127 |
| Salzburg, AT | 120 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 106 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 91 |
| Kuopio, FI | 77 |
| ZMAAlocation not on record | 72 |
| Dhaka, BD | 68 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 54 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 50 |
| DanishLepidopterologicalSocietylocation not on record | 49 |
| Bern, CH | 43 |
| Philadelphia, US | 39 |
| Paro, BT | 36 |
| Glarus, CH | 35 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 30 |
| CASMlocation not on record | 29 |
| Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record | 29 |
| Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record | 27 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 27 |
| Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record | 25 |
| Research Collection of Ralf Bolzlocation not on record | 22 |
| Winterthur, CH | 20 |
| Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record | 18 |
| Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record | 18 |
| Sion, CH | 16 |
| NMOKlocation not on record | 15 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 14 |
| RMZlocation not on record | 13 |
| Geneva, CH | 11 |
| MUZOO - Musée d'histoire naturelle de La Chaux-de-Fondslocation not on record | 11 |
| Stockholm, SE | 10 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 9 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 8 |
| Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record | 7 |
| neflocation not on record | 6 |
| KSSlocation not on record | 6 |
| Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record | 5 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 4 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 4 |
| Cambridge, US | 3 |
| Tallinn, EE | 3 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 3 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 2 |
| inatura, Dornbirnlocation not on record | 2 |
| Fribourg, CH | 2 |
| Research Collection of Bernard Dardennelocation not on record | 2 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 2 |
| SFRAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 1 |
| Oulu, FI | 1 |
| Natural History Museum of Neuchatellocation not on record | 1 |
| Gothenburg, SE | 1 |
| Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeumlocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Aricia artaxerxes 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.