Proxenus miranda, the miranda moth or glistening rustic, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in most of North America, where it has been recorded south through California to Arizona and in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado in the west. In the east it is found from southern Canada to South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The habitat consists of moist, open forests and grasslands.Pacific Northwest Moths The wingspan is about 23–27 mm.Bug Guide The forewings are glistening sooty or brownish black with a small black point marking the orbicular and reniform spots. The hindwings are white, gradually darkening on the outer third. Adults are on wing from May to October in two generations per year. The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants, including Taraxacum, Fragaria and Medicago species.
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 Proxenus miranda has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens93
BINs2
Marker genes1
eDNA detections96
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus85 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. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 4 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)0.98%
Haplotypes18
BINs2
Most divergent pair1.1%
N.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
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 914 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 149
Museum / vouchered765
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO3 412 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 accuracy88% within 1 km
≤100 m 674≤1 km 143≤10 km 39>10 km 77
933 georeferenced · 216 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 149
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 accuracy50% within 1 km
≤100 m 44≤1 km 87≤10 km 113>10 km 18
262 georeferenced · 503 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence765
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 institutions12 of 24 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
161
East Lansing, US
96
St. Paul, US
95
King Saud Universitylocation not on record
81
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
61
Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record
43
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
40
Oregon State Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record
39
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH (CLEV)location not on record
11
Decorah, US
10
Georgia Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
7
Vernal, US
6
Mississippi State, US
6
Philadelphia, US
4
San Diego, US
3
San Francisco, US
3
Saint John, CA
2
Cambridge, US
1
Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record
1
Denver, US
1
Champaign, US
1
University of Guelphlocation not on record
1
SOVTlocation not on record
1
WWUlocation not on record
1
24 institutions · 675 of 765 vouchered records shown · 90 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA96 detections
Where the DNA of Proxenus miranda 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 found96
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
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 median16.7 °C 11.8–21.7
Seasonal swing summer↔winter26.5 °C
Max temp (day)23.1 °C 16.4–26.2
Min temp (night)11.2 °C 7.10–19.9
Precipitation77.8 mm/mo 45.1–105
Air humidity56.3 % 51.0–60.0
Moisture balance-75.6 mm/mo -97.7–-12.1
Vapour deficit903 Pa 579–1,086
Wind speed3.40 m/s 1.90–6.10
Cloud cover39.7 % 33.4–47.7
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 96 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.
