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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF393 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD6 specimens
01Narrative
Metaxaglaea semitaria, the footpath sallow moth, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America. The MONA or Hodges number for Metaxaglaea semitaria is 9945.
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 Metaxaglaea semitaria has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens6
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries1
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus6 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 12 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)0.69%
Haplotypes5
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.1%
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 type393 records
Wild obs. + sensor46
Museum / vouchered347
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO384 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 accuracy70% within 1 km
≤100 m 18≤1 km 10≤10 km 5>10 km 7
40 georeferenced · 6 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor46
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 accuracy31% within 1 km
≤100 m 9≤1 km 93≤10 km 228>10 km 2
332 georeferenced · 15 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence347
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
307
Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
13
North Carolina State University Insect Museumlocation not on record
8
East Lansing, US
6
ZSMlocation not on record
2
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
2
Mississippi State, US
2
St. Paul, US
2
Cambridge, US
1
CUlocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
1
Cornell University Insect Collectionlocation not on record
1
Champaign, US
1
13 institutions · 347 of 347 vouchered records shown
