Meconema thalassinum is an insect in the family Tettigoniidae known as the oak bush-cricket and drumming katydid. It is native to Europe, including the British Isles, and was introduced to the United States, first established in the west of Long Island and extending its range to Rhode Island and Scarsdale, Stony Brook, and Ithaca, New York.
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 Meconema thalassinum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens70
BINs5
Marker genes3
eDNA detections656
Countries13
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus38 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. 90% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 63 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)2.6%
Haplotypes5
BINs4
Most divergent pair2.1%
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★ITS218S-5P
animal barcodefungal barcoderibosomal
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualMeconema thalassinum 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≈9 039 060 273 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
HUMAN3.2 Gb
THIS GENOME Meconema thalassinum9.04 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
Completeness98.8% BUSCO
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type53 986 records
Wild obs. + sensor51 700
Museum / vouchered2 282
Other4
Origin
Native1 716
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO92 996 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 accuracy57% within 1 km
≤100 m 20 267≤1 km 6 002≤10 km 18 713>10 km 969
45 951 georeferenced · 5 749 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor51 700
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 accuracy18% within 1 km
≤100 m 64≤1 km 265≤10 km 1 487>10 km 40
1 856 georeferenced · 426 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 282
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 institutions20 of 47 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Brussel, BE
645
EISlocation not on record
622
ORTHATlocation not on record
154
Bonn, DE
145
Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record
124
Bern, CH
58
Salzburg, AT
49
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
23
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
22
Geneva, CH
21
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
20
Paro, BT
17
Zürich, CH
15
Nijmegen, NL
14
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
14
Vancouver, CA
11
University of Guelphlocation not on record
9
University of Lodz, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiologylocation not on record
8
MZLUlocation not on record
8
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
7
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
7
NHMOlocation not on record
6
Saint John, CA
6
Stockholm, SE
5
ZSMlocation not on record
5
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
5
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
5
Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record
5
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
5
5
BioFokuslocation not on record
4
Cambridge, US
4
Tilburg, NL
4
Provo, US
4
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
4
NCMGlocation not on record
4
University of Oslo, Natural History Museumlocation not on record
3
Sion, CH
2
Helsinki, FI
2
Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
2
South Kensington, GB
2
CBDClocation not on record
1
New Haven, US
1
Cape Town, ZA
1
Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record
1
DFlocation not on record
1
Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Researchlocation not on record
1
47 institutions · 2 081 of 2 282 vouchered records shown · 201 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA656 detections
Where the DNA of Meconema thalassinum 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 found656
Studies independent surveys3
Countries4
Verifiable raw sequence linked639
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 656 detections have coordinates
Open the map4 countries0
Riparian ZoneForestUrban
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 median14.1 °C 10.9–17.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter17.1 °C
Max temp (day)17.2 °C 15.8–20.7
Min temp (night)10.8 °C 6.80–13.7
Precipitation61.4 mm/mo 48.6–83.5
Air humidity60.9 % 59.0–64.4
Moisture balance-48.4 mm/mo -58.5–35.3
Vapour deficit631 Pa 521–783
Wind speed4.20 m/s 2.50–4.70
Cloud cover41.6 % 39.8–45.6
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 650 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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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility53 986 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI656 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics70 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
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