Megachile montivaga is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Cresson in 1878.DiscoverLife In English, the species goes by the common name Silver-tailed Petal-cutter Bee while in French its common name is Mégachile des collines.
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 Megachile montivaga has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens15
BINs3
Marker genes1
eDNA detections10
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus11 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 66 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)4.1%
Haplotypes3
BINs3
Most divergent pair0.46%
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
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 809 records
Wild obs. + sensor174
Museum / vouchered1 623
Other12
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO3 760 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 81≤1 km 48≤10 km 6>10 km 15
150 georeferenced · 24 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor174
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 accuracy68% within 1 km
≤100 m 193≤1 km 113≤10 km 112>10 km 34
452 georeferenced · 1 171 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 623
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 institutions30 of 49 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Beltsville, US
439
161
Wuzhou, CN
142
Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record
138
US
115
Edmonton, CA
67
WIlocation not on record
50
University Park, US
46
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
44
Champaign, US
40
Cambridge, US
38
University of Alabamalocation not on record
31
FWSlocation not on record
28
Weber State University, Bird and Mammal Collectionlocation not on record
27
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
25
Lubbock, US
18
Awka, NG
14
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
14
WSUClocation not on record
13
UNHClocation not on record
12
Mexico City, MX
11
Albuquerque, US
11
Lexington, US
10
San Diego, US
10
La Jolla, US
9
Provo, US
7
Vancouver, CA
7
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
7
White River Junction, US
6
LULlocation not on record
6
New Haven, US
5
Essig Museum of Entomologylocation not on record
5
San Nicolás de los Garza, MX
4
Chicago, US
3
University of Nebraska State Museumlocation not on record
3
OSUClocation not on record
2
US
2
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
2
Saint John, CA
2
Roberts Creek, CA
2
Philadelphia, US
1
UNHPlocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
1
Mississippi State, US
1
EL PASO, US
1
Decorah, US
1
Philadelphia, US
1
Ciudad de México, MX
1
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
1
49 institutions · 1 585 of 1 623 vouchered records shown · 38 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA10 detections
Where the DNA of Megachile montivaga 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 found10
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 10 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 countries0
burnt b. sprucealong highway, spruce, deciduousroad edge
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 median15.2 °C 11.3–18.4
Seasonal swing summer↔winter22.6 °C
Max temp (day)21.5 °C 14.6–26.0
Min temp (night)9.50 °C 4.60–10.5
Precipitation38.3 mm/mo 11.0–105
Air humidity50.3 % 44.8–62.2
Moisture balance-122 mm/mo -168–10.1
Vapour deficit874 Pa 545–1,142
Wind speed3.40 m/s 1.90–4.20
Cloud cover39.1 % 24.9–58.5
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 10 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 Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 809 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI10 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics15 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗