Mimas tiliae
Linnaeus, 1758 · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Mimas tiliae's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility79 987 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI69 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics76 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Mimas tiliae, the lime hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East, and has also been identified in Canada's east and western provinces and in northern Spain (Europe). The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. This species is quite variable, though not confusable with any other sphingid of the Palearctic in its markings, the ground colour of the forewings being pinkish or buff, darker towards the tornus, marked with one or two dark green or brown blotches which are sometimes merged to form a continuous band across the middle of the forewing. The hindwings are plainer, grey or buffish brown. The wingspan is 70 -. It exhibits sexual dimorphism, the male usually being smaller but more strongly marked than the female. Usually, the forewing ground colour is brownish in females and decidedly green in males, but there are many exceptions. The female abdomen is straight and fat with fully formed eggs, which are already present when the female emerges (as in all species of Smerinthini). The male abdomen, on the other hand, is strongly curved and slender. Forms include f. brunnea Bartel ground colour brown f. pallida Tutt ground colour grey f. lutescens Tutt yellow f. virescens Tutt ground colour green f. transversa Tutt dark median band of the forewing entire f. tiliae dark median band narrowly separated f. obsoleta Clark dark median band completely absent This moth flies at night in May and June,The flight season refers to the British Isles. This may vary in other parts of the range. and is attracted to light. The adults do not feed. Mimas tiliae full.jpg|Caterpillar Mimas_tiliae_(pupa).JPG|Pupa Mimas tiliae MHNT male dos.jpg|''Mimas tiliae'' <big>♂</big> - [[MHNT]] Mimas tiliae MHNT male ventre.jpg|''Mimas tiliae'' <big>♂</big> underside - MHNT Mimas tiliae MHNT female dos.jpg|''Mimas tiliae'' <big>♀</big> - MHNT Mimas tiliae MHNT female ventre.jpg|''Mimas tiliae'' <big>♀</big> underside - MHNT The larva is green with yellow and red markings along the side and a blue horn at the hind end, typical of the family. It feeds mainly on lime but has also been recorded feeding on other trees and shrubs (see list below). The colour changes to purple-grey when ready to pupate, at which point the larvae wander in search of a pupation site. The species overwinters as a pupa in the soil at the base of its host tree.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Diet & foraging2
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 Mimas tiliae has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ 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.
The complete instruction manual Mimas tiliae 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
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).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 584×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database · GoaT · Tree of Sex Database · TreeOfSex · invert
2n 291×GoaT · de Vos et al. 2020
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.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type79 987 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions25 of 68 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| DanishLepidopterologicalSocietylocation not on record | 1 936 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 352 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 741 |
| Zürich, CH | 210 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 112 |
| Tartu, EE | 108 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 95 |
| Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record | 92 |
| Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record | 86 |
| Salzburg, AT | 79 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 77 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 61 |
| ZMAAlocation not on record | 56 |
| Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record | 49 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 41 |
| Helsinki, FI | 41 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 39 |
| Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record | 39 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 37 |
| Dhaka, BD | 36 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 35 |
| Podgorica, ME | 32 |
| Tallinn, EE | 28 |
| Paro, BT | 27 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 26 |
| NMOKlocation not on record | 22 |
| New Haven, US | 21 |
| SFRAlocation not on record | 18 |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record | 17 |
| Philadelphia, US | 17 |
| Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record | 16 |
| Bern, CH | 16 |
| Geneva, CH | 16 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 15 |
| Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record | 14 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 14 |
| Cambridge, US | 13 |
| Kuopio, FI | 11 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 10 |
| State Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukrainelocation not on record | 8 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 8 |
| Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record | 7 |
| DABUHlocation not on record | 7 |
| Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record | 7 |
| Tromsø, NO | 6 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 6 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 5 |
| EGBlocation not on record | 4 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 4 |
| Radicondoli, IT | 3 |
| Naturama Aargaulocation not on record | 3 |
| Ugentlocation not on record | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 2 |
| Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record | 2 |
| NMMElocation not on record | 2 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Brussels, BE | 2 |
| KSSlocation not on record | 2 |
| Landesmuseum Kärntenlocation not on record | 1 |
| RMZlocation not on record | 1 |
| KSTRlocation not on record | 1 |
| Auckland, NZ | 1 |
| Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record | 1 |
| NCMGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record | 1 |
| Banyoles, ES | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Mimas tiliae 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
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
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.