Hydrophilini
Hydrophilini is a tribe in the subfamily Hydrophilinae of aquatic beetles that contains 204 species in 7 genera.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HydrophilinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.
69 occurrences of Hydrophilini on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
69 occurrences- Eocene23%
- Oligocene15%
- Miocene40%
- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene17%
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
16 formations
- Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation16
- Messel Formation8
- Rott Formation5
- Florissant Formation3
- Hirabaru Formation3
- Tsubusagawa Formation3
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The named rock units Hydrophilini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hydrophilini and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hydrophilini and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,168 taxa- Coleoptera12 sites
- Curculionidae11 sites
- Carabidae8 sites
- Hydrophilus8 sites
- Staphylinidae8 sites
- Dytiscidae7 sites
- Lepidoptera7 sites
- Anisoptera6 sites
- Ichneumonidae6 sites
- Donacia5 sites
- Hydrochara5 sites
- Hydrophilidae5 sites
- Aeshnidae4 sites
- Agabus4 sites
- Bibio moestus4 sites
- Camponotites lignitus4 sites
- Chironomidae4 sites
- Chrysomelidae4 sites
- Coelostoma4 sites
- Donaciinae4 sites
- Gyrinus4 sites
- Hydrophilus spectabilis4 sites
- Ilybius4 sites
- Lygaeidae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Hydrophilini, 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- Heer, 18479
- Diversification of the greater hydrophilines clade of giant water scavenger beetles dated back to the Middle Eocene (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilina)8
- Beiträge zur Insektenfauna Oeningens: Coleoptera. Geodephagen, Hydrocanthariden, Gyriniden, Brachelytren, Clavicornen, Lamellicornen und Buprestiden7
- The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England3
- Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Hirabaru Formation of Kitsuki City, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan3
- Fossil insects and their paleoenvironments of the Pliocene Tsubusagawa Formation in Ajimu Basin, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan3
- Paleogeography of the lower Volga at the end of Atelian time based on entomological and botanical data3
- Adephagous and clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary deposits at Florissant, Colorado with descriptions of a few other forms and a systematic list of the non-rhynchophorus Tertiary Coleoptera of North America3
- Insect fauna of the late Miocene locality of Öhningen (Germany) less diverse than reported: an example of the Hydrophilid beetles (Coleoptera)2
- Geradflügler und Wasserkäfer der oligocänen Ablagerungen von Rott2
- Die Insektenfauna des Mainzer Hydrobienkalks2
- Die Insektenfauna des Böttinger Marmors2
Each of the 69 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 Hydrophilini
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Darkone
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hydrophilini 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 itHydrophilinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802