Sphecodes albilabris is a solitary parasitic bee that is endemic to Central and Western Europe. It also occurs in North Africa and is thought to have been introduced to the United States and Australia by accident.
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 Sphecodes albilabris has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens47
BINs2
Marker genes1
eDNA detections40
Countries10
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus37 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 15 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)1.2%
Haplotypes5
BINs2
Most divergent pair0.46%
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-5P
animal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type16 088 records
Wild obs. + sensor13 333
Museum / vouchered2 697
Cultivated / captive2
Other56
Origin
Native762
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO20 008 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 accuracy43% within 1 km
≤100 m 3 268≤1 km 1 880≤10 km 6 754>10 km 83
11 985 georeferenced · 1 348 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor13 333
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 accuracy25% within 1 km
≤100 m 199≤1 km 419≤10 km 1 798>10 km 23
2 439 georeferenced · 258 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 697
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 · 2 records without
Open the mapnot free-living2
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 institutions23 of 56 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Zürich, CH
378
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
237
Helsinki, FI
202
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
147
Bern, CH
145
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
130
Philadelphia, US
84
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
67
Universidad Miguel Hernándezlocation not on record
63
Paro, BT
59
Geneva, CH
53
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
45
Brussels, BE
33
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
32
NMOKlocation not on record
29
Tilburg, NL
28
KZMlocation not on record
26
23
Wuzhou, CN
20
PRAZlocation not on record
19
Trondheim, NO
18
Coimbra, PT
17
Frauenfeld, CH
16
Fribourg, CH
15
Beltsville, US
15
ZSMlocation not on record
15
Sion, CH
14
ULglocation not on record
13
Stockholm, SE
11
MNHWlocation not on record
9
BioFokuslocation not on record
9
ZMAAlocation not on record
6
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
6
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
6
Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record
5
Natuurpuntlocation not on record
5
UMUlocation not on record
5
Bonn, DE
4
neflocation not on record
4
AGClocation not on record
4
PRUNlocation not on record
4
SGAV-and-NHMDlocation not on record
4
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
4
Tartu, EE
3
MZLUlocation not on record
2
San Francisco, US
2
Metsähallituslocation not on record
2
Mons, BE
2
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
2
IENElocation not on record
2
University of Natural Resources and Life Scienceslocation not on record
1
Champaign, US
1
University of Florence, Department of Biologylocation not on record
1
University of Central Floridalocation not on record
1
US
1
UGRlocation not on record
1
56 institutions · 2 050 of 2 697 vouchered records shown · 641 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 DNA40 detections
Where the DNA of Sphecodes albilabris 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 found40
Studies independent surveys1
Countries9
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 40 detections have coordinates
Open the map9 countries0
Gemeinschaftsgarten 11er Garten
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 median16.4 °C 9.50–19.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter19.2 °C
Max temp (day)20.8 °C 13.8–23.4
Min temp (night)11.5 °C 4.30–14.9
Precipitation69.9 mm/mo 44.0–235
Air humidity59.4 % 56.7–64.3
Moisture balance-35.3 mm/mo -64.3–126
Vapour deficit687 Pa 505–963
Wind speed3.00 m/s 2.30–4.60
Cloud cover35.3 % 33.3–44.2
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 40 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 Facility16 088 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI40 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics47 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗