Gillmeria pallidactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by the English entomologist, Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1811. It has a Holarctic distribution and is widespread throughout North America and the Palearctic.
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 Gillmeria pallidactyla has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens104
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections148
Countries13
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus100 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. 98% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 13 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)1.5%
Haplotypes21
BIN1
Most divergent pair2.0%
N.AmericaEurope
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
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualGillmeria pallidactyla 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≈1 323 969 034 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 Gillmeria pallidactyla1.32 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
Completeness98.1% BUSCO
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type15 351 records
Wild obs. + sensor12 820
Museum / vouchered2 529
Other2
Origin
Native5
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO21 496 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 6 409≤1 km 3 650≤10 km 1 951>10 km 72
12 082 georeferenced · 738 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor12 820
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 accuracy88% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 187≤1 km 657≤10 km 239>10 km 19
2 102 georeferenced · 427 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 529
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 institutions18 of 50 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
426
Tartu, EE
399
NHMOlocation not on record
201
DanishLepidopterologicalSocietylocation not on record
140
Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record
100
New Haven, US
71
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
62
Philadelphia, US
62
East Lansing, US
60
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
59
Kuopio, FI
45
RMZlocation not on record
37
Rovaniemi, FI
34
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
32
Stockholm, SE
30
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
26
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
26
ZMAAlocation not on record
24
Nijmegen, NL
18
Denver, US
16
Tallinn, EE
13
Edmonton, CA
12
BioFokuslocation not on record
11
neflocation not on record
11
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
9
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
8
Metsähallituslocation not on record
8
CBDClocation not on record
6
DABUHlocation not on record
4
MZLUlocation not on record
4
University of Alaska Museumlocation not on record
3
San Francisco, US
3
South Kensington, GB
3
Vernal, US
3
Philadelphia, US
3
Mississippi State, US
2
OSUClocation not on record
2
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
2
Trondheim, NO
2
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
1
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
1
Zürich, CH
1
SOVTlocation not on record
1
KIRMlocation not on record
1
Research Collection of Daniel Handfieldlocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record
1
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
1
ZSMlocation not on record
1
Research Collection of Hartmut Wegnerlocation not on record
1
DOI/FWS, Kenai National Wildlife Refugelocation not on record
1
50 institutions · 1 988 of 2 529 vouchered records shown · 541 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA148 detections
Where the DNA of Gillmeria pallidactyla 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 found148
Studies independent surveys3
Countries13
Verifiable raw sequence linked26
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 median15.8 °C 11.4–19.1
Seasonal swing summer↔winter24.1 °C
Max temp (day)19.5 °C 14.7–24.3
Min temp (night)11.4 °C 4.90–15.2
Precipitation95.3 mm/mo 49.6–131
Air humidity59.0 % 52.9–63.6
Moisture balance-17.7 mm/mo -80.0–45.6
Vapour deficit734 Pa 520–962
Wind speed2.60 m/s 1.60–3.90
Cloud cover42.2 % 33.9–54.8
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 143 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 Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility15 351 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI148 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics104 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗