Estigmene acrea
Drury, 1773 · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Estigmene acrea's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility39 016 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI60 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics61 specimens↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Estigmene acrea, the salt marsh moth or acrea moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found in North America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Colombia, Mexico.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
No structured trait data for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Estigmene acrea across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile1 class
Documented compounds9 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (3S,3aS,6aR,9R,9aS,9bS)-9-hydroxy-9-(hydroxymethyl)-3-methyl-6-methylidene-3,3a,4,5,6a,7,9a,9b-octahydroazuleno[4,5-b]furan-2,8-dione | present | NPASS | |
| [(3aR,4S,6aR,8S,9aR,9bR)-8-acetyloxy-3,6,9-trimethylidene-2-oxo-3a,4,5,6a,7,8,9a,9b-octahydroazuleno[4,5-b]furan-4-yl] (2S)-2-acetyloxy-3-chloro-2-methylpropanoate | present | NPASS | |
| [(3aR,4S,6aR,8S,9aR,9bR)-8-acetyloxy-3,6,9-trimethylidene-2-oxo-3a,4,5,6a,7,8,9a,9b-octahydroazuleno[4,5-b]furan-4-yl] 2-(acetyloxymethyl)prop-2-enoate | present | NPASS | |
| [(3aR,4S,6aR,8S,9R,9aS,9bS)-8-acetyloxy-3,6-dimethylidene-2-oxospiro[3a,4,5,6a,7,8,9a,9b-octahydroazuleno[4,5-b]furan-9,2'-oxirane]-4-yl] (2S)-2-methyloxirane-2-carboxylate | present | NPASS | |
| [(3aR,4S,6aR,8S,9R,9aS,9bS)-8-acetyloxy-3,6-dimethylidene-2-oxospiro[3a,4,5,6a,7,8,9a,9b-octahydroazuleno[4,5-b]furan-9,2'-oxirane]-4-yl] 2-(acetyloxymethyl)prop-2-enoate | present | NPASS | |
| [(3S,3aS,6aR,9R,9aS,9bS)-9-(hydroxymethyl)-3-methyl-6-methylidene-2,8-dioxo-3,3a,4,5,6a,7,9a,9b-octahydroazuleno[8,7-b]furan-9-yl] acetate | present | NPASS | |
| Aguerin B | present | NPASS | |
| Centaurepensin | present | NPASS | |
| XJUFXNXZZRHROZ-QESCIMFYSA-N | present | NPASS |
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 Estigmene acrea 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.
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 type39 016 records
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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions29 of 59 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| New Haven, US | 450 |
| East Lansing, US | 179 |
| Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Colimalocation not on record | 119 |
| Colorado State Universitylocation not on record | 118 |
| Provo, US | 114 |
| St. Paul, US | 86 |
| Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 61 |
| University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record | 54 |
| San Diego, US | 54 |
| King Saud Universitylocation not on record | 49 |
| Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 47 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 46 |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record | 43 |
| CUlocation not on record | 42 |
| Mississippi State, US | 31 |
| Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record | 30 |
| OSUClocation not on record | 29 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 26 |
| Vernal, US | 26 |
| Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record | 24 |
| Toronto, CA | 23 |
| US | 20 |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 16 |
| Mexico City, MX | 14 |
| University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 12 |
| US | 11 |
| Australian National Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 11 |
| University of Central Floridalocation not on record | 10 |
| Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 9 |
| Denver, US | 9 |
| Philadelphia, US | 8 |
| Saint John, CA | 8 |
| MX | 8 |
| Brussels, BE | 8 |
| Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 8 |
| Champaign, US | 7 |
| Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record | 7 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 6 |
| University of Alabamalocation not on record | 6 |
| Albuquerque, US | 5 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 5 |
| Instituto de Fitosanidad, Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillolocation not on record | 4 |
| Cambridge, US | 4 |
| Lubbock, US | 4 |
| San Luis Potosí, MX | 3 |
| Espace pour la vielocation not on record | 3 |
| Edmonton, CA | 2 |
| WWUlocation not on record | 2 |
| KWPlocation not on record | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Provincia di Pesaro e Urbinolocation not on record | 1 |
| Auckland, NZ | 1 |
| Los Angeles, US | 1 |
| München, DE | 1 |
| National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 1 |
| Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 1 |
| Denton, US | 1 |
| University Park, US | 1 |
| University of Guelphlocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Estigmene acrea 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.