Apateticinae
Apateticinae is a subfamily of rove beetles that was first described by Fauvel in 1895. It contains 34 species split between two genera. They are found primarily in east Asia, with a few instances of them being spotted in south Asia.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StaphylinidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 76 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
2 occurrences of Apateticinae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous50%
- Eocene50%
These 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Apateticinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Apateticinae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Apateticinae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
151 taxa- Aberrantochrysa buryatica1 site
- Aboilus1 site
- Aboilus khasurty1 site
- Amorimyia robusta1 site
- Amplicella1 site
- Amplicella bashkuyevi1 site
- Amplicella mininae1 site
- Amplicella minor1 site
- Anisopodidae1 site
- Antiquanabittacus1 site
- Antiquanabittacus dispar1 site
- Antiquanabittacus robustus1 site
- Antiquanabittacus saltator1 site
- Araneae1 site
- Archisusumania contacta1 site
- Artematopodites1 site
- Austroleptidae1 site
- Baikalogenites firmus1 site
- Bostrichoidea1 site
- Brachysyntexis1 site
- Burimodus novus1 site
- Buryatocentrus suspiciosus1 site
- Buryatocera1 site
- Buryatocera beta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Apateticinae, 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
2 references- The Khasurty fossil insect Lagerstätte1
- A report on some recent collections of fossil Coleoptera from the Miocene shales of Florissant1
Each of the 2 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. 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 Apateticinae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- iNaturalist user: renshuchu
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Apateticinae was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- 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 itStaphylinidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fauvel 1895