The bright-line brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is a common species throughout Europe, but is also found in North Africa (Morocco and Algeria), temperate North Asia and Central Asia, Asia Minor, Syria, and Turkestan, northern India, China, Korea and Japan. Larva Pupa This species' common name is usefully descriptive: The forewings are dark reddish brown marked with a prominent light orange-brown stigma and a bright white subterminal line. The hindwings are grey, darker towards the termen. The wingspan is 34–44 mm. They are attracted to light, sugar and nectar-rich flowers.
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 Lacanobia oleracea has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens77
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections121
Countries18
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus75 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. 100% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 2 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)0.16%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.46%
Europe
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 manualLacanobia oleracea 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≈817 314 537 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 Lacanobia oleracea0.82 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
Completeness98.6% BUSCO
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type427 118 records
Wild obs. + sensor415 876
Museum / vouchered9 934
Other1 308
Origin
Native7 601
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO106 452 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 accuracy13% within 1 km
≤100 m 40 033≤1 km 12 342≤10 km 351 651>10 km 713
404 739 georeferenced · 11 137 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor415 876
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 accuracy64% within 1 km
≤100 m 4 701≤1 km 1 201≤10 km 3 001>10 km 294
9 197 georeferenced · 737 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence9 934
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 institutions25 of 65 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
DanishLepidopterologicalSocietylocation not on record
4 332
Helsinki, FI
999
Zürich, CH
251
Bern, CH
212
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
203
NHMOlocation not on record
160
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
123
Salzburg, AT
117
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
104
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
104
UMUlocation not on record
90
Tartu, EE
85
Paro, BT
83
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
75
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
70
Kuopio, FI
68
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
67
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
66
ZMAAlocation not on record
63
Geneva, CH
57
Frauenfeld, CH
54
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
53
Fribourg, CH
51
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
47
SFRAlocation not on record
46
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
41
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
39
Dhaka, BD
37
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
37
Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record
34
Podgorica, ME
34
Philadelphia, US
32
Winterthur, CH
31
MZLUlocation not on record
29
CBDClocation not on record
26
Brussels, BE
25
Sion, CH
22
Tallinn, EE
21
NMOKlocation not on record
20
DABUHlocation not on record
19
Nijmegen, NL
18
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
15
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
14
Tromsø, NO
14
Stockholm, SE
14
Naturama Aargaulocation not on record
10
Metsähallituslocation not on record
9
Glarus, CH
9
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
8
ZSMlocation not on record
8
Auckland, NZ
6
South Kensington, GB
5
Banyoles, ES
4
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
4
BioFokuslocation not on record
4
KSSlocation not on record
4
Philosophical Societylocation not on record
3
EGBlocation not on record
2
RERElocation not on record
2
Musée de Saint-Imierlocation not on record
2
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
2
Rovaniemi, FI
2
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
1
Research Collection of Kai Berggrenlocation not on record
1
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record
1
65 institutions · 8 189 of 9 934 vouchered records shown · 1 745 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA121 detections
Where the DNA of Lacanobia oleracea 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 found121
Studies independent surveys3
Countries18
Verifiable raw sequence linked24
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 median16.2 °C 9.90–18.9
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.3 °C
Max temp (day)18.7 °C 13.6–23.6
Min temp (night)11.8 °C 4.20–15.5
Precipitation71.3 mm/mo 47.0–122
Air humidity60.2 % 56.5–64.8
Moisture balance-41.9 mm/mo -65.7–68.4
Vapour deficit724 Pa 462–981
Wind speed3.30 m/s 2.20–4.60
Cloud cover41.8 % 34.8–49.6
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 119 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 Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility427 118 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI121 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics77 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗