Heteroptera

The Heteroptera are a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the order Hemiptera. They are sometimes called "true bugs", though that name more commonly refers to the Hemiptera as a whole. "Typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal alternative, since the heteropterans are most consistently and universally termed "bugs" among the Hemiptera. "Heteroptera" is Greek for "different wings": most species have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions ; members of the primitive sub-group Enicocephalomorpha have completely membranous wings.

Heteroptera

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 245 million years on record.

The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 2159 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 2159 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 21 of 2159 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 82 of 2159 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 27 of 2159 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 127 of 2159 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 450 of 2159 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 158 of 2159 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 18 of 2159 occurrencesEocene — about 605 of 2159 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 249 of 2159 occurrencesMiocene — about 340 of 2159 occurrencesPliocene — about 28 of 2159 occurrencesPleistocene — about 36 of 2159 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 3 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 5 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 5 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 5 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 5 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 22 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 3 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 56 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 8 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 28 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 35 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 85 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 21 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 19 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 259 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 134 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 16 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 135 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 9 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 8 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 15 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 54 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 90 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 469 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 169 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 212 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 184 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 98 occurrences245.19 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

2,159 occurrences of Heteroptera 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

2,159 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

176 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 42.04°N, 116.63°EYixian — 41.58°N, 121.06°EYixian — 41.53°N, 121.10°EYixian — 40.97°N, 117.90°EYixian — 42.08°N, 116.68°EYixian — 41.03°N, 118.92°EYixian — 41.54°N, 118.92°EYixian — 42.74°N, 125.37°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EGurvan-Eren — 46.30°N, 93.90°EGurvan-Eren — 46.30°N, 93.80°EGurvan-Eren — 46.99°N, 95.46°EGurvan-Eren — 48.45°N, 92.27°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ELaiyang — 37.05°N, 120.96°ELaiyang — 37.03°N, 120.79°ELaiyang — 37.05°N, 120.79°ELaiyang — 37.01°N, 120.86°ELaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WTurga — 51.92°N, 118.86°ETurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°ETurga — 52.96°N, 117.78°ETurga — 51.34°N, 118.69°EPosidonia Shale — 52.35°N, 10.74°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°ESharteg — 44.14°N, 95.78°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 41.82°N, 110.76°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 39.54°N, 108.12°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 42.13°N, 110.13°WGreen River — 39.73°N, 107.98°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EØlst — 56.86°N, 8.62°EØlst — 56.90°N, 8.75°EØlst — 56.84°N, 9.00°ELa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WLa Toca — 19.22°N, 70.67°WFur — 56.89°N, 8.67°EFur — 56.92°N, 8.92°EFur — 56.95°N, 8.88°EFur — 56.90°N, 8.79°E

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The named rock units Heteroptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 152 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 807 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heteroptera and its relatives

Eocene

Where Heteroptera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

7,670 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 736 sites for Heteroptera, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

628 references

Each of the 2,159 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. 616 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 content2

Picture of Heteroptera

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Markus Gayda
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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3dhdscan
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CC Attribution-NonCommercial
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The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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