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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF229 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD5 specimens
01Narrative
Suniana lascivia, the dingy grass-dart or dingy dart, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia), Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. The wingspan is about 20 mm. The larvae feed on Panicum maximum and Imperata cylindrica species. During the day, it rests in a vertical shelter formed by joining leaves of the host plant with silk.
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 Suniana lascivia has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens5
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries1
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus5 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. 97% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 21 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)1.4%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair2.9%
OceaniaOther
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 type229 records
Wild obs. + sensor91
Museum / vouchered138
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO408 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 accuracy96% within 1 km
≤100 m 30≤1 km 19≤10 km 2
51 georeferenced · 40 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor91
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 accuracy0% within 1 km
≤10 km 83>10 km 14
97 georeferenced · 41 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence138
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 institutions3 of 8 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Cambridge, US
46
Natick, US
28
Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record
26
Museums Victorialocation not on record
18
Sydney, AU
7
DOI/NPS, Salem Maritime National Historic Sitelocation not on record
5
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record
2
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record
2
8 institutions · 134 of 138 vouchered records shown · 4 without an institution code
