Nebria brevicollis
(Fabricius, 1792) · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Nebria brevicollis's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility42 152 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI87 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics79 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Nebria brevicollis is a species of ground beetle native to Europe and the Near East. In Europe, it is found in all countries and islands except the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean Islands, Novaya Zemlya, San Marino, the Selvagens Islands, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City. It has now been reported as introduced in western Oregon, U.S.A.,D. Kavanaugh & J. R. LaBonte, 2008: Discovery of Nebria brevicollis, a European ground Beetle, Established in Willamette Valley, Oregon. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 59(9): pp 481–488. where it has been found in highly disturbed sites as well as in native old-growth forest stands. It has also now been found in Washington State (see external link to BugGuide, below), Northern California, as well as in Southern British Columbia, Canada(See external link to iNaturalist, below). This species is most abundant between October and December, then from January through mid-May. Although Nebria brevicollis is widely considered to be solely carnivorous, multiple small studies made by enthusiasts have proven that many Nebria brevicollis will resort to eating various types of fungi that can be found in the soil they live on/around. Studied made by the same individuals have also shown that Nebria brevicollis are semi-social, and will often work together when faced with certain obstacles.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
No structured trait data 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 Nebria brevicollis 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 Nebria brevicollis 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.
diploid1×GoaT · Coleoptera Karyotype Database
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 solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Nebria brevicollis. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
How it livedPBDB
Record type42 154 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.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
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 79 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Vitoria, ES | 941 |
| Bern, CH | 592 |
| Zürich, CH | 360 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 270 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 192 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 161 |
| Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record | 155 |
| HAFLlocation not on record | 139 |
| Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record | 115 |
| Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record | 101 |
| Geneva, CH | 100 |
| Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau Frick | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Fricklocation not on record | 74 |
| Tilburg, NL | 69 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 64 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 62 |
| EIBElocation not on record | 56 |
| Salzburg, AT | 53 |
| Dhaka, BD | 48 |
| Tartu, EE | 46 |
| Ghent, BE | 42 |
| Leuphanalocation not on record | 42 |
| Paro, BT | 41 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 39 |
| Helsinki, FI | 38 |
| LEBAlocation not on record | 38 |
| Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record | 36 |
| ZIBElocation not on record | 35 |
| Provo, US | 32 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 28 |
| NMOKlocation not on record | 27 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 27 |
| NCMGlocation not on record | 24 |
| neflocation not on record | 21 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 20 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 18 |
| Ugentlocation not on record | 17 |
| ZSMlocation not on record | 14 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 13 |
| ZAF-UMUlocation not on record | 12 |
| Winterthur, CH | 11 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 11 |
| University of Tokyo, Department of Zoologylocation not on record | 11 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 11 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 10 |
| Tallinn, EE | 10 |
| TMPMlocation not on record | 10 |
| Philadelphia, US | 8 |
| Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 8 |
| Trondheim, NO | 8 |
| Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record | 6 |
| EGBlocation not on record | 6 |
| GMBRClocation not on record | 5 |
| LSMlocation not on record | 5 |
| Kuopio, FI | 5 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 5 |
| Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 4 |
| Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record | 4 |
| EWIClocation not on record | 3 |
| DFlocation not on record | 3 |
| Paris, FR | 3 |
| Tempe, US | 3 |
| Radicondoli, IT | 3 |
| Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record | 2 |
| Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Scienceslocation not on record | 2 |
| SFRAlocation not on record | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| IZFRlocation not on record | 2 |
| Olocation not on record | 2 |
| Tromsø, NO | 1 |
| IFR-DNFlocation not on record | 1 |
| Private Collection of H. Haraldseidelocation not on record | 1 |
| University Park, US | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record | 1 |
| World Museum Liverpoollocation not on record | 1 |
| Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record | 1 |
| Essig Museum of Entomologylocation not on record | 1 |
| NEON Biorepository at Arizona State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Nebria brevicollis 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.