Trixagus dermestoides is a species of false metallic wood-boring beetles native to Europe.Fauna EuropaeaNorman H. Joy, , 1932 A Practical Handbook of British Beetles
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 Trixagus dermestoides has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens193
BINs1
Marker genes3
eDNA detections982
Countries15
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P655 bp consensus180 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. 100% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 1 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)0.15%
Haplotypes11
BIN1
Most divergent pair1.2%
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-5P18S-5P
animal barcoderibosomal
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type10 564 records
Wild obs. + sensor7 769
Museum / vouchered2 744
Cultivated / captive7
Fossil35
Other9
Origin
Native507
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO13 724 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 accuracy73% within 1 km
≤100 m 3 737≤1 km 973≤10 km 1 741>10 km 32
6 483 georeferenced · 1 286 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor7 769
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 accuracy60% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 099≤1 km 368≤10 km 936>10 km 23
2 426 georeferenced · 318 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 744
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 · 7 records without
Open the mapnot free-living7
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 institutions20 of 51 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Metsähallituslocation not on record
388
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
324
Geneva, CH
196
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
148
Trondheim, NO
126
Zürich, CH
89
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
84
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
67
Bern, CH
66
Helsinki, FI
55
Fribourg, CH
52
Olocation not on record
52
Tartu, EE
51
IFR-DNFlocation not on record
46
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
45
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
44
Paris, FR
37
Frauenfeld, CH
36
NHMOlocation not on record
35
Paro, BT
34
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
34
NMOKlocation not on record
31
BioFokuslocation not on record
31
Tilburg, NL
25
TMPMlocation not on record
14
Stockholm, SE
14
CBDClocation not on record
13
ZSMlocation not on record
12
Tallinn, EE
11
MZLUlocation not on record
10
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
10
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
9
Salzburg, AT
9
Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record
8
Kuopio, FI
8
neflocation not on record
7
NCMGlocation not on record
7
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)location not on record
7
LSMlocation not on record
6
Philadelphia, US
5
Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record
5
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
4
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
4
South Kensington, GB
3
2
University of Tokyo, Department of Zoologylocation not on record
2
Copenhagen, DK
2
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
1
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
1
Winterthur, CH
1
Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record
1
51 institutions · 2 272 of 2 744 vouchered records shown · 471 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 DNA982 detections
Where the DNA of Trixagus dermestoides 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 found982
Studies independent surveys5
Countries15
Verifiable raw sequence linked788
Signal confidence: moderateweighed 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 median14.6 °C 10.9–17.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.3 °C
Max temp (day)18.7 °C 15.1–21.4
Min temp (night)10.8 °C 6.90–13.6
Precipitation68.6 mm/mo 48.6–92.1
Air humidity60.0 % 57.8–61.6
Moisture balance-43.6 mm/mo -65.6–-15.0
Vapour deficit681 Pa 540–808
Wind speed3.20 m/s 2.40–4.30
Cloud cover44.8 % 39.5–54.8
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 977 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.
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility10 564 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI982 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics193 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
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