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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF211 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD10 specimens
01Narrative
Euxoa cicatricosa is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1865. It is found in North America from south central Saskatchewan west to southern interior British Columbia; south to southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas; east to western Nebraska and North Dakota. The wingspan is 29–32 mm. Adults are on wing in August to September. There is one generation per year.
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 cicatricosa has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens10
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus9 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 5 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%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.46%
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 type211 records
Wild obs. + sensor24
Museum / vouchered187
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO320 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 accuracy24% within 1 km
≤100 m 3≤1 km 2≤10 km 12>10 km 4
21 georeferenced · 3 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor24
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 accuracy42% within 1 km
≤100 m 27≤1 km 4≤10 km 29>10 km 13
73 georeferenced · 114 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence187
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 institutions5 of 11 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
64
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
40
New Haven, US
27
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
19
Denver, US
11
St. Paul, US
9
Vernal, US
5
WWUlocation not on record
4
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
2
Awka, NG
2
ASUlocation not on record
1
11 institutions · 184 of 187 vouchered records shown · 3 without an institution code
