Anthribinae
Anthribinae is a subfamily of fungus weevils in the family of beetles known as Anthribidae. There are over 50 genera and more than 80 described species in Anthribinae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnthribidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 108 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
72 occurrences of Anthribinae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
72 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
9 formations
- Florissant Formation8
- Green River Formation7
- Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation3
- Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation2
- la Pedrera de Rubies Formation1
- Shanwang Formation1
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The named rock units Anthribinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anthribinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anthribinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,783 taxa- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi7 sites
- Pherhombus antennalis6 sites
- Prenolepis henschei6 sites
- Glaesotropis (Glaesotropis) weitschati5 sites
- Tettigoniidae5 sites
- Curculionidae4 sites
- Eocaenonemonychini4 sites
- Formica gustawi4 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri4 sites
- Lystra richardsoni4 sites
- Protepiptera kaweckii4 sites
- Sciomyza disjecta4 sites
- Sciomyza manca4 sites
- Tetraponera simplex4 sites
- Zygoptera4 sites
- Abdera (Abdera) hoffeinsorum3 sites
- Anaspis (Spanisa) horaki3 sites
- Anisoptera3 sites
- Apidae3 sites
- Archimetrioxena zherikhini3 sites
- Bibio moestus3 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti3 sites
- Entiminae3 sites
- Eotemnothorax hystriculus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Anthribinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
31 references- New Anthribidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in Dominican and Mexican ambers19
- A review of the Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) from European Eocene ambers6
- Fossil Mesozoic and Cenozoic weevils (Coleoptera, Obrienioidea, Curculionoidea)6
- Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States6
- A new anthribid genus from the Baltic amber (Insecta: Coleoptera, Anthribidae)4
- Heer, 18473
- New weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) from the earlymost Eocene Oise amber2
- The Tertiary Insects of North America2
- The Fossil Insects of the Green River Shales2
- New and little known weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) from the Paleogene and Neogene1
- New curculionoid beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) from the Baltic amber1
- New species of the genus Glaesotropis (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Rovno amber1
Each of the 72 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 19 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Anthribinae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- John Hallmén
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anthribinae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Anthribinae”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnthribidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billberg 1820