Calliscelio

Calliscelio is a parasitoid wasp genus in the family Scelionidae with currently 97 described species worldwide.

Calliscelio

Chen H-y, Masner L, Johnson NF (2017) New World species of the genus Calliscelio Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae… · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScelioninaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Eocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya20.45 Mya38.2 Mya13.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Calliscelio on record. 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

5 occurrences

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 the same rock

1,332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Calliscelio, 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

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Calliscelio

Credit
Chen H-y, Masner L, Johnson NF (2017) New World species of the genus Calliscelio Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Calliscelio was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itScelioninae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ashmead 1893