Protambulyx strigilis, the streaked sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae prevalent in the Americas from Florida to Central and South America. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1771.
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 Protambulyx strigilis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens142
BINs1
Marker genes1
eDNA detections1
Countries19
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus103 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 10 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)0.75%
Haplotypes25
BIN1
Most divergent pair5.5%
S.AmericaN.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
Organelle genome
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
▸ Tap any coloured segment — or a gene chip — to see what it is
◖ violet arc = the COI-5P barcode — the ~650 bp read used to ID this species
Pick a coloured segment on the ring — or a gene chip — to read what that gene does.
protein-codingrRNAtRNA
07Deep time~8.7 Ma lineage
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
DNA clock origin8.7 Ma TimeTree
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.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type3 996 records
Wild obs. + sensor2 859
Museum / vouchered1 067
Other70
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO8 624 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 accuracy81% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 436≤1 km 455≤10 km 234>10 km 200
2 325 georeferenced · 534 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor2 859
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 accuracy65% within 1 km
≤100 m 201≤1 km 29≤10 km 108>10 km 14
352 georeferenced · 715 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 067
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 institutions15 of 38 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record
449
Mexico City, MX
124
New Haven, US
94
FLMNH-UFlocation not on record
80
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
65
South Kensington, GB
28
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record
27
Tapachula, MX
22
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
20
The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobagolocation not on record
20
University of Pennsylvanialocation not on record
15
Denver, US
14
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
10
University of Rouen, ECODIV Laboratorylocation not on record
10
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record
8
Area de Conservacion Guanacastelocation not on record
7
Ciudad de México, MX
6
Tartu, EE
6
Brussels, BE
6
PUC-RSlocation not on record
6
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
4
Toronto, CA
3
St. Paul, US
3
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record
2
Research Collection of D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachslocation not on record
2
University Park, US
2
Universidad de Sucre (UniSucre)location not on record
2
UNICAMPlocation not on record
2
OSUClocation not on record
1
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
1
Cambridge, US
1
ASUlocation not on record
1
Mississippi State, US
1
Saint John, CA
1
University of Central Floridalocation not on record
1
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record
1
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
1
Salzburg, AT
1
38 institutions · 1 047 of 1 067 vouchered records shown · 20 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA1 detections
Where the DNA of Protambulyx strigilis 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 found1
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 1 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
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 median24.7 °C 24.7–24.7
Seasonal swing summer↔winter2.50 °C
Max temp (day)27.7 °C
Min temp (night)21.9 °C
Precipitation39.6 mm/mo
Air humidity65.1 %
Moisture balance-109 mm/mo
Vapour deficit1,082 Pa
Wind speed5.10 m/s
Cloud cover15.3 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · 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 Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 996 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics142 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗