Diachrysia chrysitis, the burnished brass, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe, the Caucasus, Russia, Russian Far East and Siberia. In the south of Europe the range extends to southern Spain, southern Italy and the Balkan peninsula. It is lacking on most of the Greek Islands. In the north it extends into almost to the Arctic circle and far north Russia. In the east the range extends to the Amur region and Japan.
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 Diachrysia chrysitis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens191
BINs1
Marker genes3
eDNA detections255
Countries28
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus173 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)0.40%
Haplotypes24
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.2%
EuropeAsia
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-5PEF1-alpha
animal barcodemarker
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualDiachrysia chrysitis 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
Genome size≈386 364 714 bp assembly estimate
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).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
THIS GENOME Diachrysia chrysitis0.39 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
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.
Assembly levelChromosome
Completeness99.1% BUSCO
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type265 538 records
Wild obs. + sensor252 061
Museum / vouchered12 566
Cultivated / captive1
Other910
Origin
Native6 471
Introduced1
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO96 244 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 accuracy16% within 1 km
≤100 m 29 881≤1 km 10 233≤10 km 205 733>10 km 266
246 113 georeferenced · 5 948 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor252 061
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 accuracy57% within 1 km
≤100 m 5 079≤1 km 1 552≤10 km 4 693>10 km 276
11 600 georeferenced · 966 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence12 566
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km
≤10 km 1
1 georeferenced
Open the mapnot free-living1
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 institutions24 of 72 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
4 269
Helsinki, FI
2 217
Bern, CH
443
Kuopio, FI
277
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
240
NHMOlocation not on record
210
Zürich, CH
197
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
188
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
163
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
118
Geneva, CH
113
Salzburg, AT
112
Tartu, EE
108
Paro, BT
107
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
106
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
71
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
68
ZMAAlocation not on record
66
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
66
Fribourg, CH
65
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
58
Frauenfeld, CH
56
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
54
Glarus, CH
53
Dhaka, BD
51
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
46
UMUlocation not on record
46
Podgorica, ME
43
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
42
Philadelphia, US
40
Tallinn, EE
35
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
34
NCMGlocation not on record
34
Sion, CH
33
Naturama Aargaulocation not on record
28
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
27
MZLUlocation not on record
27
Brussels, BE
24
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeumlocation not on record
23
SFRAlocation not on record
22
Winterthur, CH
22
CBDClocation not on record
20
Stockholm, SE
19
KIRMlocation not on record
19
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
17
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
17
ZSMlocation not on record
16
Nijmegen, NL
16
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
15
New Haven, US
12
Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record
12
Tromsø, NO
12
neflocation not on record
6
Cambridge, US
6
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
5
Metsähallituslocation not on record
5
RERElocation not on record
4
Ugentlocation not on record
4
DABUHlocation not on record
3
Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record
3
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
2
RMZlocation not on record
2
Philosophical Societylocation not on record
2
EGBlocation not on record
2
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
2
BioFokuslocation not on record
2
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeumlocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
1
Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
1
University of Oslo, Natural History Museumlocation not on record
1
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record
1
South Kensington, GB
1
72 institutions · 10 231 of 12 566 vouchered records shown · 2 325 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA255 detections
Where the DNA of Diachrysia chrysitis 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 found255
Studies independent surveys4
Countries28
Verifiable raw sequence linked12
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 median14.6 °C 4.50–18.1
Seasonal swing summer↔winter19.6 °C
Max temp (day)18.2 °C 7.30–22.3
Min temp (night)10.1 °C 1.50–13.5
Precipitation70.2 mm/mo 49.1–153
Air humidity61.5 % 57.5–65.8
Moisture balance-17.6 mm/mo -68.2–46.3
Vapour deficit651 Pa 375–871
Wind speed2.90 m/s 1.90–5.50
Cloud cover41.8 % 32.8–54.6
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 246 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 Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility265 538 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI255 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics191 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗