Sphecodes ephippius is a Palearctic species of sweat bee.BWARSEdward Saunders 1896, The Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Isles London. pdf us.archive Full text with illustrations]
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 ephippius has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens74
BINs3
Marker genes2
eDNA detections83
Countries19
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P657 bp consensus65 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 5 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)0.56%
Haplotypes4
BINs2
Most divergent pair0.76%
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
animal barcode
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualSphecodes ephippius 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
Genome size≈568 741 411 bp assembly estimate
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).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
THIS GENOME Sphecodes ephippius0.57 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
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.
Assembly levelChromosome
Completeness96.2% BUSCO
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type14 026 records
Wild obs. + sensor5 436
Museum / vouchered8 497
Cultivated / captive14
Other79
Origin
Native2 931
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO15 960 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 accuracy54% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 013≤1 km 831≤10 km 2 403
5 247 georeferenced · 189 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor5 436
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 accuracy26% within 1 km
≤100 m 631≤1 km 1 410≤10 km 5 742>10 km 80
7 863 georeferenced · 634 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence8 497
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 · 14 records without
Open the mapnot free-living14
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 institutions27 of 64 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
915
Zürich, CH
774
Bern, CH
645
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
626
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
476
Philadelphia, US
382
Brussels, BE
306
Universidad Miguel Hernándezlocation not on record
252
ULglocation not on record
223
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
192
NMOKlocation not on record
140
Paro, BT
139
NHMOlocation not on record
121
Geneva, CH
84
PRAZlocation not on record
63
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
57
Natuurpuntlocation not on record
56
Trondheim, NO
55
Tilburg, NL
54
MZLUlocation not on record
39
neflocation not on record
36
Helsinki, FI
34
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
34
Fribourg, CH
34
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
34
Wuzhou, CN
32
BioFokuslocation not on record
28
Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau Frick | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Fricklocation not on record
28
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
25
Dhaka, BD
25
South Kensington, GB
24
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
22
PRUNlocation not on record
20
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
19
Frauenfeld, CH
18
Stockholm, SE
16
16
Tartu, EE
16
IENElocation not on record
14
ZSMlocation not on record
13
Sion, CH
10
Beltsville, US
10
Universität Zürich, Naturhistorisches Museumlocation not on record
9
Mons, BE
9
NCMGlocation not on record
8
US
7
Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record
6
Paris, FR
5
Gothenburg, SE
4
Winterthur, CH
4
SGAV-and-NHMDlocation not on record
4
Bonn, DE
4
CBDClocation not on record
4
Tromsø, NO
3
Metsähallituslocation not on record
3
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
3
DFlocation not on record
2
Naturkundliche Sammlung Urilocation not on record
2
ARTlocation not on record
2
AGClocation not on record
2
Coimbra, PT
2
EIBElocation not on record
2
University of Oslo, Natural History Museumlocation not on record
2
Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record
1
64 institutions · 6 195 of 8 497 vouchered records shown · 2 296 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 DNA83 detections
Where the DNA of Sphecodes ephippius 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 found83
Studies independent surveys4
Countries19
Verifiable raw sequence linked8
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 83 detections have coordinates
Open the map19 countries0
1.1. Boreal Forest|1. Forest & Woodland
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 median14.2 °C 8.70–20.4
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.4 °C
Max temp (day)18.2 °C 12.6–24.6
Min temp (night)10.4 °C 4.60–15.2
Precipitation60.6 mm/mo 39.4–107
Air humidity58.8 % 56.4–63.1
Moisture balance-42.2 mm/mo -85.1–-11.4
Vapour deficit641 Pa 461–1,024
Wind speed3.30 m/s 2.40–4.90
Cloud cover38.8 % 32.6–46.0
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 76 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 Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility14 026 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI83 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics74 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗