Maculinea nausithous

(Bergstrasser, 1779) · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Lycaenidae/Maculinea

At a glance

Occurrence records2 576

Data sources6

Biological traits0

DNA specimens6

eDNA detections199

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Maculinea nausithous's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 576 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI199 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics6 specimens↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF2 576 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 17 countries199 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD6 specimens

01Narrative

The dusky large blue (Phengaris nausithous) is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Armenia,Phengaris nausithous at Butterfly Conservation Armenia Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine.Popović, Verovnik (2018). Revised Checklist of the Butterflies of Serbia (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Zootaxa 4438 (3): 501–27. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4438.3.5. The life cycle of this species is strongly related to the herbaceous plant Sanguisorba officinalis (great burnet).

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding6 specimens

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 Maculinea nausithous has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens6

BINs2

Marker genes1

eDNA detections199

Countries17

Marker genes sequenced

★ 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

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type2 576 records

Wild obs. + sensor1 784

Museum / vouchered637

Cultivated / captive2

Other153

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO3 696 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 accuracy4% within 1 km

≤100 m 12≤1 km 55≤10 km 1 571>10 km 47

1 685 georeferenced · 99 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor1 784

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 accuracy84% within 1 km

≤100 m 6≤1 km 374≤10 km 47>10 km 24

451 georeferenced · 186 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence637

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

Coordinate accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 2 records without

Open the mapnot free-living2

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 institutions5 of 12 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record	269
Zürich, CH	103
Podgorica, ME	58
Edmonton, CA	50
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record	39
Nijmegen, NL	33
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record	20
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	20
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record	17
University of Kaiserslauternlocation not on record	10
New Haven, US	5
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record	2

12 institutions · 626 of 637 vouchered records shown · 8 without an institution code

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

09Environmental DNA199 detections

Where the DNA of Maculinea nausithous 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 found199

Studies independent surveys1

Countries17

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 199 detections have coordinates

Open the map17 countries0

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 median19.2 °C 11.9–21.2

Seasonal swing summer↔winter21.5 °C

Max temp (day)23.4 °C 16.4–26.5

Min temp (night)14.5 °C 7.10–16.6

Precipitation77.4 mm/mo 45.9–113

Air humidity58.1 % 55.0–62.1

Moisture balance-49.6 mm/mo -85.8–-0.7

Vapour deficit941 Pa 593–1,134

Wind speed2.50 m/s 1.60–3.70

Cloud cover35.0 % 31.8–41.4

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 195 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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Maculinea nausithous

At a glance

Sources6 archives

At a glance

Record type2 576 records

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions5 of 12 geolocated

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Modelled climatemodelled

Record type2 576 records