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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF3 659 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD12 specimens
Genome at a glanceGoaT333 Mbp
01Narrative
Macaria bisignata, the redheaded inchworm, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from Newfoundland to Georgia, west to Arizona, north to Ontario. The wingspan is about . The moths are on wing from May to August depending on the location. The head is reddish brown in color. A particular characteristic of markings are the 3 or 4 dark brown marks where the antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines meet costa (forewing leading edge) and by a larger, subrectangular spot where subterminal band meets costa. Another segment of subterminal band usually persists as a smaller dark spot between M3 and CuA1. It is very similar looking to Psamatodes abydata which lacks the dark brown costa marks. The ground color (overall) of the wings ranges from light milky tan to darker gray-brown. The larva feed on almost exclusively on pine such as Pinus strobus.
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 Macaria bisignata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens12
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus12 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. 98% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 10 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)0.50%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.91%
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
06Genome at a glanceGoaT
The complete instruction manualMacaria bisignata 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 size332 520 000 bp
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 Macaria bisignata0.33 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type3 659 records
Wild obs. + sensor3 030
Museum / vouchered629
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO6 404 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 accuracy86% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 740≤1 km 437≤10 km 105>10 km 243
2 525 georeferenced · 505 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor3 030
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 accuracy22% within 1 km
≤100 m 6≤1 km 99≤10 km 337>10 km 25
467 georeferenced · 162 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence629
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 institutions6 of 13 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
New Haven, US
223
Cambridge, US
163
East Lansing, US
93
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
26
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
18
Mississippi State, US
15
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
7
UDlocation not on record
6
OSUClocation not on record
4
University of California, Davislocation not on record
4
SOVTlocation not on record
3
Blacksburg, US
1
Toronto, CA
1
13 institutions · 564 of 629 vouchered records shown · 65 without an institution code
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 659 records↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics12 specimens↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome ~0.33 Gbp↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗