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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF739 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD44 specimens
01Narrative
Hermeuptychia hermybius is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It has been recorded in southern North America from the lower Rio Grande Valley region of Texas, along the Rio Grande from Laredo to the Gulf coast. It is also found in neighbouring Mexico (Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí). The length of the forewings is 16 mm. The larvae feed on Panicum maximus.
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 Hermeuptychia hermybius has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens44
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries3
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P615 bp consensus44 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)0.66%
Haplotypes9
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.5%
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 type739 records
Wild obs. + sensor703
Museum / vouchered36
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO612 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 accuracy78% within 1 km
≤100 m 221≤1 km 170≤10 km 76>10 km 32
499 georeferenced · 204 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor703
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 accuracy0% within 1 km
≤10 km 1>10 km 1
2 georeferenced · 34 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence36
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 institutions1 of 1 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Zürich, CH
2
1 institutions · 2 of 36 vouchered records shown · 34 without an institution code
