Hemaris diffinis, the snowberry clearwing, is a moth of the order Lepidoptera, family Sphingidae. This moth is sometimes called "hummingbird moth" or "flying lobster". This moth should not be confused with the hummingbird hawk-moth of Europe.
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 Hemaris diffinis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens59
BINs4
Marker genes1
eDNA detections43
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus56 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. 94% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 39 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)2.4%
Haplotypes18
BINs4
Most divergent pair4.3%
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 type22 037 records
Wild obs. + sensor20 417
Museum / vouchered1 618
Other2
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO51 376 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 accuracy81% within 1 km
≤100 m 10 955≤1 km 3 251≤10 km 1 248>10 km 2 084
17 538 georeferenced · 2 879 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor20 417
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 accuracy22% within 1 km
≤100 m 28≤1 km 203≤10 km 565>10 km 242
1 038 georeferenced · 580 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 618
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 institutions26 of 51 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
333
St. Paul, US
237
East Lansing, US
214
Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
153
Vernal, US
78
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
72
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
61
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
53
King Saud Universitylocation not on record
50
San Diego, US
41
ASUlocation not on record
28
Cambridge, US
27
University Park, US
23
Philadelphia, US
19
OSUClocation not on record
17
Toronto, CA
16
Chicago, US
15
San Francisco, US
15
Saint John, CA
14
Albuquerque, US
10
US
9
Denver, US
7
University of Alabamalocation not on record
7
Mississippi State, US
7
Decorah, US
6
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
6
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
5
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
5
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
5
Brussels, BE
4
Champaign, US
4
WIlocation not on record
3
Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record
3
US
3
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
3
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
3
Awka, NG
3
University of Guelphlocation not on record
2
University of California, Davislocation not on record
2
Wuzhou, CN
2
SOVTlocation not on record
2
FLMNH-UFlocation not on record
1
University of Central Floridalocation not on record
1
Washington, US
1
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
1
CUlocation not on record
1
Blacksburg, US
1
Zürich, CH
1
Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
1
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
US
1
51 institutions · 1 577 of 1 618 vouchered records shown · 41 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA43 detections
Where the DNA of Hemaris diffinis 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 found43
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 43 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 countries0
Grassland
How strong is each trace?
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 median17.7 °C 13.2–26.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter27.3 °C
Max temp (day)23.5 °C 18.8–31.1
Min temp (night)12.8 °C 7.80–21.6
Precipitation89.9 mm/mo 67.6–124
Air humidity57.1 % 52.8–60.3
Moisture balance-57.7 mm/mo -83.9–-22.3
Vapour deficit887 Pa 681–1,446
Wind speed3.20 m/s 2.20–5.00
Cloud cover39.5 % 29.3–46.3
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 29 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.
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ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI43 eDNA detections↗
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