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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF953 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD5 specimens
01Narrative
Thyreus caeruleopunctatus, commonly known as the chequered cuckoo bee, is a parasitic bee of the genus Thyreus, also called cuckoo bees. It is a stocky bee, notable for its brilliant metallic blue and black banded colors.
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 Thyreus caeruleopunctatus 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-5P653 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. 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)0.64%
Haplotypes4
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.46%
Oceania
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 type953 records
Wild obs. + sensor827
Museum / vouchered72
Other54
Origin
Native1
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 200 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 accuracy74% within 1 km
≤100 m 325≤1 km 101≤10 km 48>10 km 102
576 georeferenced · 251 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor827
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 accuracy5% within 1 km
≤100 m 2≤10 km 36>10 km 3
41 georeferenced · 31 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence72
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 institutions2 of 6 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Museums Victorialocation not on record
43
Sydney, AU
15
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record
7
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record
5
1
Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record
