Protaetia cuprea, also known as the copper chafer, is a species of chafer in the family Scarabaeidae. This species is also known as the rose chafer, and has a wide geographic distribution extending from Canary Islands, Portugal and Spain in the west towards Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, Mongolia, and northern China.
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 Protaetia cuprea has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens106
BINs3
Marker genes3
eDNA detections108
Countries22
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus53 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. 92% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 52 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)2.9%
Haplotypes23
BINs3
Most divergent pair2.3%
Europe
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-3P★COI-5P★ITS1
animal barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · TreeOfSex
The complete instruction manualProtaetia cuprea 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.
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.
TreeOfSex · invert — Dutrillaux AM, Mercier J, Xie H, Dutrillaux B (2008) Chromosome study of sixteen species or subspecies of European Cetoniini (Coleoptera: Acarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Annales De La Societe Entomologique De France 44: 443-450. ↗
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type20 918 records
Wild obs. + sensor18 860
Museum / vouchered2 046
Cultivated / captive3
Other9
Origin
Native673
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO39 776 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 accuracy87% within 1 km
≤100 m 10 973≤1 km 3 441≤10 km 1 887>10 km 301
16 602 georeferenced · 2 258 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor18 860
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 accuracy43% within 1 km
≤100 m 601≤1 km 241≤10 km 954>10 km 156
1 952 georeferenced · 94 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 046
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 3 records without
Open the mapnot free-living3
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 institutions18 of 45 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
449
Paro, BT
308
Tartu, EE
177
Metsähallituslocation not on record
170
Geneva, CH
135
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
72
Helsinki, FI
47
Vitoria, ES
31
Bern, CH
25
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
22
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
22
ZMAAlocation not on record
21
Oulu, FI
20
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
20
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
20
NMOKlocation not on record
19
Fribourg, CH
18
MZLUlocation not on record
13
Amur Branch of Botanical Garden-Institute of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Scienceslocation not on record
10
Nijmegen, NL
10
Salzburg, AT
9
WULS-DFPElocation not on record
9
Zürich, CH
8
ZSMlocation not on record
8
SFRAlocation not on record
8
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
8
TMPMlocation not on record
7
Kuopio, FI
5
Dhaka, BD
5
Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record
4
Frauenfeld, CH
4
Copenhagen, DK
3
University of Tennessee at Chattanoogalocation not on record
3
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
2
Frankfurt am Main
2
ASUlocation not on record
2
IFR-DNFlocation not on record
2
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
1
National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Indialocation not on record
1
Philadelphia, US
1
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
1
Rovaniemi, FI
1
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
1
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
1
IRSTEAlocation not on record
1
45 institutions · 1 706 of 2 046 vouchered records shown · 340 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA108 detections
Where the DNA of Protaetia cuprea 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 found108
Studies independent surveys2
Countries21
Verifiable raw sequence linked2
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 108 detections have coordinates
Open the map21 countries0
Waldrandan Holzund Blüten gesammeltBergwiese, Nadelwaldan Wegrainen gekeschert und geklopftaus der Veghetation geklopft und gekeschertLittoral mediterraneen sauvage
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 median16.0 °C 8.30–22.0
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.9 °C
Max temp (day)20.1 °C 12.1–26.2
Min temp (night)10.7 °C 3.50–17.6
Precipitation66.7 mm/mo 24.0–132
Air humidity59.0 % 54.9–64.3
Moisture balance-43.7 mm/mo -137–78.0
Vapour deficit745 Pa 415–1,183
Wind speed3.00 m/s 1.80–4.50
Cloud cover36.8 % 31.3–48.6
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 92 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 Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility20 918 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI108 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics106 specimens↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗