Cilix glaucata, the Chinese character, is a moth of the family Drepanidae. It was first described by the Italian physician and naturalist, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in his 1763 Entomologia Carniolica. It is found in Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa.
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 Cilix glaucata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens77
BINs1
Marker genes2
eDNA detections77
Countries11
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus73 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.
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)0.07%
Haplotypes7
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.61%
Europe
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-5P
animal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type115 805 records
Wild obs. + sensor112 002
Museum / vouchered3 590
Other213
Origin
Native1 756
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO53 020 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 accuracy12% within 1 km
≤100 m 10 685≤1 km 2 326≤10 km 95 954>10 km 141
109 106 georeferenced · 2 896 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor112 002
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 accuracy67% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 121≤1 km 779≤10 km 904>10 km 19
2 823 georeferenced · 767 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence3 590
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 institutions18 of 50 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
1 294
South Kensington, GB
592
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
528
Zürich, CH
96
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
47
NHMOlocation not on record
45
DABUHlocation not on record
39
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
34
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
34
Podgorica, ME
33
SFRAlocation not on record
32
Paro, BT
31
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
30
NMOKlocation not on record
27
Frauenfeld, CH
24
NCMGlocation not on record
23
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
22
Nijmegen, NL
22
CBDClocation not on record
22
Bern, CH
21
Geneva, CH
21
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
20
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
17
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record
16
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
16
Stockholm, SE
14
Sion, CH
12
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
11
MZLUlocation not on record
10
Philadelphia, US
9
Tartu, EE
8
State Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukrainelocation not on record
8
ZSMlocation not on record
6
Radicondoli, IT
6
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
6
Naturama Aargaulocation not on record
3
Helsinki, FI
3
Tallinn, EE
2
Dhaka, BD
2
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
2
UGRlocation not on record
2
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
1
Toronto, CA
1
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record
1
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
1
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
1
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeumlocation not on record
1
Museo universitario di Scienze della Terra di Romalocation not on record
1
New Haven, US
1
50 institutions · 3 199 of 3 590 vouchered records shown · 391 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA77 detections
Where the DNA of Cilix glaucata 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 found77
Studies independent surveys2
Countries11
Verifiable raw sequence linked1
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
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 median16.7 °C 10.7–21.4
Seasonal swing summer↔winter15.5 °C
Max temp (day)20.9 °C 14.7–24.6
Min temp (night)12.8 °C 6.10–17.5
Precipitation55.0 mm/mo 29.4–88.6
Air humidity58.4 % 54.7–61.6
Moisture balance-63.3 mm/mo -129–-17.8
Vapour deficit819 Pa 517–1,061
Wind speed3.60 m/s 2.60–5.10
Cloud cover37.2 % 24.7–43.4
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 73 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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility115 805 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI77 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics77 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗