Chrysodeixis eriosoma, the green garden looper, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. Mostly cosmopolitan in distribution, it is a pest in Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, the Malay Peninsula and Australasia. It is present in Hawaii and recorded as an incursion in mainland North America and Russia.CABI Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet: Chrysodeixis eriosoma (green looper caterpillar) (Viewed 14 Nov. 2015) It is morphologically identical to Chrysodeixis chalcites and the two may be sibling species.
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 Chrysodeixis eriosoma has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens153
BINs2
Marker genes2
eDNA detections2
Countries17
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus141 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 1 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)0.35%
Haplotypes6
BINs2
Most divergent pair0.30%
OceaniaAsiaOther
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★ITS1
animal barcodefungal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type2 368 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 562
Museum / vouchered764
Other42
Origin
Native19
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO4 612 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 accuracy82% within 1 km
≤100 m 597≤1 km 294≤10 km 84>10 km 116
1 091 georeferenced · 471 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 562
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 accuracy46% within 1 km
≤100 m 26≤1 km 11≤10 km 35>10 km 9
81 georeferenced · 683 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence764
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 institutions9 of 37 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
tesrilocation not on record
127
Helsinki, FI
114
DPIlocation not on record
83
Museums Victorialocation not on record
50
Taiwan Forestry Research Institutelocation not on record
44
Auckland, NZ
43
FACTlocation not on record
33
Chiba, JP
29
Gifu prefectural Museumlocation not on record
23
Hiwa Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
21
SUVlocation not on record
19
Toyota city nature sanctuarylocation not on record
14
NSMKlocation not on record
12
Kawasaki Shi Tama Ku, JP
12
Sagamihara, JP
12
Washington, US
11
Natick, US
10
New Haven, US
8
Shiojiri City Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
5
The University of Hawaii Insect Museumlocation not on record
5
MWLRlocation not on record
4
Tallinn, EE
4
Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1location not on record
4
KOMlocation not on record
3
Ishikawa Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
3
ZSMlocation not on record
3
Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record
3
NHMOlocation not on record
2
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
2
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
2
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record
2
National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record
1
USGS Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Centerlocation not on record
1
Research Collection of Egbert Friedrichlocation not on record
1
Landcare Research, New Zealand Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
1
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
1
New Zealand Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
1
37 institutions · 713 of 764 vouchered records shown · 51 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA2 detections
Where the DNA of Chrysodeixis eriosoma 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 found2
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 2 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 median19.7 °C 19.7–19.7
Seasonal swing summer↔winter8.40 °C
Max temp (day)21.8 °C
Min temp (night)16.9 °C
Precipitation73.2 mm/mo
Air humidity60.5 %
Moisture balance-82.1 mm/mo
Vapour deficit902 Pa
Wind speed2.60 m/s
Cloud cover37.6 %
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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ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics153 specimens↗
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