Diaphorinae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- DolichopodidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 48 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.
12 occurrences of Diaphorinae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
12 occurrences- Eocene58%
- Miocene25%
- Pleistocene8%
- Holocene8%
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.
Diaphorinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Diaphorinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,269 taxa- Dolichopodidae3 sites
- Keroplatidae3 sites
- Chrysotus2 sites
- Palaeomedeterus cambayensis2 sites
- Acalyptratae1 site
- Acartophthalmites tertiaria1 site
- Acilius praesulcatus1 site
- Acnemia bolsiusi1 site
- Agabus congeneroides1 site
- Agabus corticeus1 site
- Agabus niedzwiedzkii1 site
- Agabus parvulus1 site
- Agabus reitteri1 site
- Agonum micans1 site
- Agraylea spathifera1 site
- Agriotes succiniferus1 site
- Agroecomyrmex duisburgi1 site
- Aikahika veta1 site
- Allacma1 site
- Allacma plumosa1 site
- Allacma plumosetosa1 site
- Allacma setosa1 site
- Allacrotelsa dubia1 site
- Allodia antiqua1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Diaphorinae, 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
9 references- The Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of Mexican amber3
- Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from the Eocene amber deposits of Cambay and Kutch basins, India2
- Evenhuis, 19941
- Un diptère dolichopodide fossile de l'ambre de Roumanie1
- Contribution á la fauna des diptères du copal récent de Zanzibar, de Madagascar et d'Accra1
- Monographie des Dolichopodidae de l'ambre de la Baltique, Part 111
- Monographie des Dolichopodidae de l’ambre de la Baltique, Part 71
- Révision des diptères fossiles types de Loew conservés au Musée Provincial de Koenigsberg1
- Pleistoceńskie owady z Borysławia1
Each of the 12 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 Diaphorinae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Diaphorinae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDolichopodidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schiner 1864