Mythimna ferrago
Fabricius, 1787 · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Mythimna ferrago's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility191 589 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI128 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics101 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Mythimna ferrago, the clay, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787. It is distributed throughout EuropeChinery, Michael (1986, reprinted 1991). Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe. and is also found in Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, Turkestan, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia and the western parts of temperate North Asia. Also Tibet. The forewings of this species vary from buffish to orangey brown, usually with a darker central line running longways down the wing, interrupted by a pale stigma.Skinner, Bernard (1984). The Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles. There are usually a few small dark spots in the basal area. The hindwings are dark grey with paler margins. The male is easily recognizable by a triangular area of black hair on the underside of the abdomen. The wingspan is 36–44 mm. This moth flies at night in July and August and is attracted to light and sugar.
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 Mythimna ferrago 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 Mythimna ferrago 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).
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.
Record type191 589 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 institutions27 of 71 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 | 2 694 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 1 113 |
| Helsinki, FI | 750 |
| Zürich, CH | 366 |
| Bern, CH | 225 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 196 |
| Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record | 138 |
| Dhaka, BD | 124 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 122 |
| Salzburg, AT | 121 |
| Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record | 101 |
| Geneva, CH | 89 |
| UMUlocation not on record | 89 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 87 |
| Tartu, EE | 85 |
| Paro, BT | 72 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 66 |
| Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record | 66 |
| Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record | 62 |
| Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record | 60 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 60 |
| Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record | 60 |
| Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record | 54 |
| Naturama Aargaulocation not on record | 50 |
| Fribourg, CH | 49 |
| Philadelphia, US | 47 |
| Kuopio, FI | 46 |
| ZMAAlocation not on record | 45 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 44 |
| Sion, CH | 44 |
| NCMGlocation not on record | 36 |
| Tallinn, EE | 35 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 33 |
| Winterthur, CH | 31 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 30 |
| Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record | 28 |
| Podgorica, ME | 23 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 23 |
| NMOKlocation not on record | 19 |
| Glarus, CH | 19 |
| Stockholm, SE | 15 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 13 |
| Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record | 13 |
| SFRAlocation not on record | 12 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 12 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 10 |
| Brussels, BE | 10 |
| DABUHlocation not on record | 10 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 9 |
| Cambridge, US | 8 |
| Tromsø, NO | 6 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 6 |
| KSSlocation not on record | 5 |
| Musée de Saint-Imierlocation not on record | 4 |
| neflocation not on record | 3 |
| Research Collection of Bernard Dardennelocation not on record | 3 |
| Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record | 3 |
| Radicondoli, IT | 2 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 2 |
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| EGBlocation not on record | 2 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 2 |
| Banyoles, ES | 1 |
| ЗИН РАНlocation not on record | 1 |
| МПХУlocation not on record | 1 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 |
| ННПМ НАНУlocation not on record | 1 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 1 |
| ЗММУlocation not on record | 1 |
| ЗМКУlocation not on record | 1 |
| Landesmuseum Kärntenlocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Mythimna ferrago 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.