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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF382 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD13 specimens
01Narrative
Chrysobothris octocola is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in Central America, North America, and Oceania.
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 Chrysobothris octocola has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens13
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries1
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus13 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. 97% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 23 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)1.1%
Haplotypes10
BIN1
Most divergent pair2.6%
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 type382 records
Wild obs. + sensor233
Museum / vouchered149
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO992 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 accuracy86% within 1 km
≤100 m 121≤1 km 32≤10 km 10>10 km 14
177 georeferenced · 56 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor233
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 accuracy0% within 1 km
≤10 km 37>10 km 37
74 georeferenced · 75 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence149
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 institutions8 of 11 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Lubbock, US
50
San Francisco, US
35
College Station, US
26
US
21
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
8
San Diego, US
3
München, DE
2
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
1
Cambridge, US
1
University of Alabamalocation not on record
1
St. Paul, US
1
11 institutions · 149 of 149 vouchered records shown
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Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗