Hylobius abietis
(C.Linnaeus, 1758) · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Hylobius abietis's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation10 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility21 871 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI429 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics79 specimens↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Hylobius abietis or the large pine weevil is a beetle belonging to family Curculionidae. This species is widely regarded as the most important pest of most commercially important coniferous trees in European plantations. Seedlings planted or arising from natural regeneration (germinated seed-fall) after clear felling operations are especially at risk. The adult weevils cause damage by eating the bark of seedlings around the 'collar' of the stem, thus 'ring-barking' the tree seedling which usually results in its demise.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
No structured trait data 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 Hylobius abietis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ 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.
The complete instruction manual Hylobius abietis 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.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 226×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database · GoaT · Tree of Sex Database · GoaT · Coleoptera Karyotype Database +1
diploid1×GoaT · Coleoptera Karyotype Database
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Hylobius abietis. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
How it livedPBDB
Record type21 872 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
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.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions16 of 56 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 520 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 466 |
| Trondheim, NO | 423 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 314 |
| Tartu, EE | 180 |
| IFR-DNFlocation not on record | 161 |
| Vitoria, ES | 153 |
| Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record | 145 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 89 |
| Tromsø, NO | 87 |
| MNHWlocation not on record | 83 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 71 |
| Helsinki, FI | 57 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 53 |
| Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record | 46 |
| UJAG-IZlocation not on record | 45 |
| Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 42 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 40 |
| Philadelphia, US | 37 |
| Tilburg, NL | 35 |
| Salzburg, AT | 35 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 31 |
| Olocation not on record | 23 |
| Kuopio, FI | 18 |
| Tallinn, EE | 15 |
| NMOKlocation not on record | 15 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 13 |
| LSMlocation not on record | 12 |
| Stockholm, SE | 10 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 10 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 10 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 10 |
| neflocation not on record | 10 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 9 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 8 |
| ZMAAlocation not on record | 8 |
| Ugentlocation not on record | 7 |
| TMPMlocation not on record | 6 |
| NCMGlocation not on record | 6 |
| Department of Molecular Biodiversity, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Scienceslocation not on record | 5 |
| Winterthur, CH | 5 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 5 |
| South Kensington, GB | 4 |
| Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 4 |
| Oulu, FI | 3 |
| Fergusson College (Autonomous)location not on record | 3 |
| Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)location not on record | 2 |
| Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record | 2 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 1 |
| Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record | 1 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 1 |
| UO-CeStuBiolocation not on record | 1 |
| Private Collection of H. Haraldseidelocation not on record | 1 |
| Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record | 1 |
| Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Hylobius abietis 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
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
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.