Kricogonia lyside
(Godart, 1819) · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Kricogonia lyside's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility9 936 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics59 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Kricogonia lyside, the lyside sulphur or guayacan sulphur, is a North American, Caribbean, and South American butterfly in the family Pieridae. In seasons with heavy monsoons, this butterfly is seen in massive migrations which are frequent in Texas but more rare in the southwest. It is also an occasional resident in southern Florida.
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 Kricogonia lyside 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 Kricogonia lyside 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.
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 orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type9 936 records
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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions28 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 |
|---|---|
| Ciudad de México, MX | 1 448 |
| Tapachula, MX | 736 |
| Mexico City, MX | 330 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 168 |
| Cambridge, US | 158 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 131 |
| New Haven, US | 91 |
| Colorado State Universitylocation not on record | 59 |
| East Lansing, US | 49 |
| Museo del Instituto de Zoologia Agricola Francisco Fernandez Yepezlocation not on record | 48 |
| 34 | |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 34 |
| Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record | 26 |
| St. Paul, US | 21 |
| Los Angeles, US | 21 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 19 |
| Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 18 |
| San Diego, US | 15 |
| The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobagolocation not on record | 14 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 14 |
| Washington, US | 14 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 12 |
| Universidad del Valle de Guatemalalocation not on record | 10 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 9 |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record | 9 |
| National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 8 |
| Denver, US | 8 |
| München, DE | 7 |
| Zürich, CH | 7 |
| US | 6 |
| Essig Museum of Entomologylocation not on record | 6 |
| Mayagüez, PR | 6 |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 5 |
| Philadelphia, US | 5 |
| Albuquerque, US | 4 |
| Vernal, US | 4 |
| Brussels, BE | 3 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 3 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 3 |
| Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 2 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 2 |
| King Saud Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Blacksburg, US | 1 |
| OSUClocation not on record | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| MX | 1 |
| Oficina de Estudios Especialeslocation not on record | 1 |
| Champaign, US | 1 |
| Mississippi State, US | 1 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Kricogonia lyside 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.