Tsitana tsita — The Life Data

Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Hesperiidae/Tsitana

At a glance

Occurrence records291

Data sources7

Biological traits0

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Tsitana tsita's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility291 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page3 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF291 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

Tsitana tsita, the dismal sylph, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Winterberg and Amatolas in the eastern Cape along the Drakensberg into Lesotho and KwaZulu-Natal down to sea level from Durban across the midlands to the Tugela, the Free State, the eastern part of the North West Province and Gauteng into the Limpopo Province. It is also present in Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of grassland at altitudes between sea level and 2,600 metres.Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Heteropterinae The wingspan is 30–38 mm for males and 32–38 mm for females. Adults are on wing from December to March (with a peak in January). There is one generation per year. The larvae feed on Stipa dregeana.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

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 Tsitana tsita has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

BINs1

Marker genes1

Marker genes sequenced

★ 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 type291 records

Wild obs. + sensor57

Museum / vouchered234

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO504 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 accuracy100% within 1 km

≤100 m 23≤1 km 9

32 georeferenced · 25 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor57

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 4

4 georeferenced · 230 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence234

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 10 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Teylers Museumlocation not on record	160
Sydney, AU	41
National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record	8
Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record	6
Cape Town, ZA	5
Iziko South African Museumlocation not on record	5
Cambridge, US	4
Northern Michigan Universitylocation not on record	2
East London Museumlocation not on record	2
KwaZulu-Natal Museumlocation not on record	1

10 institutions · 234 of 234 vouchered records shown