Dolycoris baccarum
(Linnaeus, 1758) · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Dolycoris baccarum's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation10 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility156 349 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI229 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics142 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Dolycoris baccarum, the sloe bug or hairy shieldbug,Dolycoris baccarum Hairy Shieldbug, British Bugs is a species of shield bug in the family Pentatomidae.Biolib
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 Dolycoris baccarum 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.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
The complete instruction manual Dolycoris baccarum 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.
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.
2n 141×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database
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 type156 349 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 institutions18 of 54 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Tartu, EE | 517 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 487 |
| NSMKlocation not on record | 192 |
| Philadelphia, US | 148 |
| Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record | 125 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 124 |
| Tallinn, EE | 96 |
| Helsinki, FI | 84 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 83 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 83 |
| Bonn, DE | 66 |
| HUNMlocation not on record | 62 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 60 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 52 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 36 |
| ZMAAlocation not on record | 36 |
| UO-CeStuBiolocation not on record | 20 |
| WGSlocation not on record | 18 |
| Chiba, JP | 17 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 15 |
| neflocation not on record | 15 |
| Tromsø, NO | 13 |
| Itami Shi, JP | 12 |
| NEFlocation not on record | 10 |
| Kuopio, FI | 9 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 8 |
| Winterthur, CH | 8 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 7 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 7 |
| Ugentlocation not on record | 7 |
| South Kensington, GB | 7 |
| Forssa, FI | 7 |
| Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record | 6 |
| NCMGlocation not on record | 6 |
| RCMlocation not on record | 6 |
| IMEDEAlocation not on record | 5 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 5 |
| DNSMlocation not on record | 3 |
| DRIBlocation not on record | 3 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 3 |
| Nagatoro-machi, Chichibu-gun, JP | 3 |
| Toyama, JP | 3 |
| Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciêncialocation not on record | 2 |
| Iwate Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 2 |
| Gyeryonsan Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| MJINlocation not on record | 2 |
| Nanjing, CN | 1 |
| CIBIOlocation not on record | 1 |
| KCMNlocation not on record | 1 |
| NMOKlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Lodz, Dept of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiologylocation not on record | 1 |
| Barcelona, ES | 1 |
| DFlocation 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 Dolycoris baccarum 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.