Zygaena viciae, the New Forest burnet, is a member of the Zygaenidae family. It is found in southern and central Europe, west to Scotland. It is also found in southern Scandinavia. In the east, the range extends to Lake Baikal.Fauna Europaea The wingspan is 22–32 mm. Adults are on wing in July. The larvae feed on the leaves of Lotus corniculatus and Lathyrus pratensis.
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 Zygaena viciae has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens68
BINs2
Marker genes16
eDNA detections51
Countries14
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus43 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 23 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)1.1%
Haplotypes14
BINs2
Most divergent pair5.2%
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.
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy57% within 1 km
≤100 m 10 685≤1 km 6 200≤10 km 12 829>10 km 151
29 865 georeferenced · 1 051 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor30 916
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 accuracy34% within 1 km
≤100 m 501≤1 km 992≤10 km 2 789>10 km 117
4 399 georeferenced · 539 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence4 938
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 · 4 records without
Open the mapnot free-living4
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 57 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Zürich, CH
634
Copenhagen, DK
590
DanishLepidopterologicalSocietylocation not on record
442
Tartu, EE
278
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record
263
Philadelphia, US
189
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
150
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
148
Salzburg, AT
136
ZMAAlocation not on record
123
Frauenfeld, CH
122
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
78
Bern, CH
61
Paro, BT
60
Helsinki, FI
58
NHMOlocation not on record
54
Archäologie und Museum Baselland - Museum.BLlocation not on record
53
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
50
Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record
49
Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record
49
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
45
Geneva, CH
43
Tallinn, EE
31
Tromsø, NO
26
John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
25
MZLUlocation not on record
23
Kuopio, FI
21
Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record
19
Sion, CH
17
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
15
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
14
Nijmegen, NL
13
NMOKlocation not on record
11
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
10
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
9
New Haven, US
8
CASMlocation not on record
8
Rovaniemi, FI
6
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record
6
Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record
4
Naturmuseum Oltenlocation not on record
4
Dhaka, BD
4
ZSMlocation not on record
4
Research Collection of Eric Drouetlocation not on record
4
Vitoria, ES
4
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
3
SFRAlocation not on record
3
University of Central Floridalocation not on record
3
Stockholm, SE
3
EGBlocation not on record
2
neflocation not on record
2
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record
1
Research Collection of Hartmut Wegnerlocation not on record
1
Ugentlocation not on record
1
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
1
University of Oslo, Natural History Museumlocation not on record
1
BioFokuslocation not on record
1
57 institutions · 3 983 of 4 938 vouchered records shown · 955 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 DNA51 detections
Where the DNA of Zygaena viciae 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 found51
Studies independent surveys1
Countries12
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 51 detections have coordinates
Open the map12 countries0
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 median16.6 °C 10.1–18.6
Seasonal swing summer↔winter19.4 °C
Max temp (day)20.3 °C 14.2–23.0
Min temp (night)11.9 °C 4.20–14.1
Precipitation96.5 mm/mo 56.0–193
Air humidity59.8 % 57.5–62.8
Moisture balance-35.5 mm/mo -90.7–87.8
Vapour deficit757 Pa 481–918
Wind speed3.20 m/s 2.10–4.60
Cloud cover37.6 % 31.6–44.1
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 46 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 Foundation7 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility35 955 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI51 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics68 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗