Lyctus brunneus is a xylophage (wood-eating) insectWood Eating Bugs - Insects That Eat Wood, Animal Wised, accessed 31 July 2020. a species of beetle in the family Bostrichidae. It is a member of the subfamily Lyctinae, the powderpost beetles. It is known commonly as the brown powderpost beetleLyctus brunneus. PaDIL. or brown lyctus beetle. Today it is distributed worldwide but it was probably originally native to the Neotropical realm.Ebeling, W. Chapter 5: Wood-Destroying Insects and Fungi. Urban Entomology. UC Riverside Entomology. Like other powderpost beetles, this species lives in wood.Pest Notes: Wood-Boring Beetles in Homes. Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California. UC ANR Publication 7418.
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 Lyctus brunneus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens13
BINs1
Marker genes3
eDNA detections12
Countries6
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus8 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)0.36%
Haplotypes3
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.76%
OceaniaEuropeAsia
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-5P18S-5PCYTB
animal barcoderibosomalmitochondrial
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 087 records
Wild obs. + sensor249
Museum / vouchered801
Fossil7
Other30
Origin
Introduced69
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 824 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 accuracy46% within 1 km
≤100 m 59≤1 km 41≤10 km 88>10 km 29
217 georeferenced · 32 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor249
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 accuracy26% within 1 km
≤100 m 79≤1 km 34≤10 km 289>10 km 31
433 georeferenced · 368 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence801
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 institutions21 of 42 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
DPIlocation not on record
280
Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record
75
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallerylocation not on record
55
Brussels, BE
53
Geneva, CH
44
Sydney, AU
27
Museums Victorialocation not on record
20
Zürich, CH
18
Ciudad de México, MX
17
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
15
Tilburg, NL
11
Natick, US
10
MWLRlocation not on record
9
Bern, CH
7
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
7
ZSMlocation not on record
6
Vitoria, ES
6
New Zealand Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
6
Cape Town, ZA
5
Olocation not on record
5
Auckland, NZ
4
Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria - AGROSAVIAlocation not on record
4
NHMOlocation not on record
4
Tromsø, NO
3
Sagamihara, JP
3
CBDClocation not on record
3
NCMGlocation not on record
2
Dhaka, BD
2
Paro, BT
2
Yamaguchi-shi, JP
2
FOWGlocation not on record
2
QVMAGlocation not on record
2
Helsinki, FI
1
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
1
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
1
Bando, JP
1
South Kensington, GB
1
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo (MZUSP)location not on record
1
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record
1
East Lansing, US
1
Kuopio, FI
1
42 institutions · 719 of 801 vouchered records shown · 82 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA12 detections
Where the DNA of Lyctus brunneus 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 found12
Studies independent surveys1
Countries4
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 12 detections have coordinates
Open the map4 countries0
Weinberg1. Forest & Woodland
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 median10.2 °C -0.5–18.0
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.8 °C
Max temp (day)13.0 °C 2.20–21.5
Min temp (night)4.90 °C -5.40–15.5
Precipitation85.9 mm/mo 37.1–277
Air humidity61.9 % 59.5–77.7
Moisture balance35.9 mm/mo
Vapour deficit340 Pa 215–816
Wind speed2.80 m/s
Cloud cover41.6 % 21.0–52.6
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 6 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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