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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF209 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD16 specimens
01Narrative
Euxoa aurulenta, the dune cutworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Smith in 1888. It is found in North America from Ontario west to Alberta and Washington, south to Illinois, Nebraska, Colorado and Arizona. The wingspan is 35–39 mm. Adults are on wing in May to July. There is one generation per year. The larvae probably feed on species of dune grass. In Michigan specimens have been collected in close proximity to the beach grasses Ammophila breviligulata and Calmovilfa longifolia.
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 Euxoa aurulenta has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens16
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus16 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. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 8 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)0.26%
Haplotypes9
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.61%
N.America
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
animal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type209 records
Wild obs. + sensor19
Museum / vouchered190
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO168 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 accuracy83% within 1 km
≤100 m 14≤1 km 1≤10 km 3
18 georeferenced · 1 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor19
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 accuracy73% within 1 km
≤1 km 43≤10 km 12>10 km 4
59 georeferenced · 131 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence190
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 institutions3 of 7 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
97
East Lansing, US
56
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
13
Vernal, US
7
New Haven, US
3
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
3
WWUlocation not on record
2
7 institutions · 181 of 190 vouchered records shown · 9 without an institution code
