Ichneumonoidea

The superfamily Ichneumonoidea contains one extinct and two extant families, including the two largest families within Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae and Braconidae. The group is thought to contain as many as 100,000 species, many of which have not yet been described. Like other parasitoid wasps, they were long placed in the "Parasitica", variously considered as an infraorder or an unranked clade, now known to be paraphyletic.

Ichneumonoidea

Bruce Marlin · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
ApocritaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 143 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 852 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 87 of 852 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 63 of 852 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 852 occurrencesEocene — about 496 of 852 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 106 of 852 occurrencesMiocene — about 57 of 852 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 852 occurrencesPleistocene — about 28 of 852 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–127 Mya — about 6 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 17 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 34 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 23 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 19 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 13 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–81 Mya — about 9 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 12 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 43 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 44 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 10 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 219 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 198 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 48 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 45 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 31 occurrences15–10 Mya — about 16 occurrences10–5.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 39 occurrences143.1 Mya11.7 ka152 Mya0 Mya

852 occurrences of Ichneumonoidea 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

852 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

69 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EFur — 56.92°N, 8.92°EFur — 56.57°N, 9.00°EFur — 56.89°N, 8.82°EFur — 56.89°N, 8.72°EFur — 56.83°N, 9.00°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EZaza — 53.17°N, 111.77°EZaza — 53.20°N, 112.82°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EGreen River — 39.94°N, 108.20°WGreen River — 39.98°N, 109.11°WGreen River — 39.35°N, 108.20°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.88°N, 109.15°WGreen River — 39.51°N, 108.03°WGreen River — 39.54°N, 108.12°WOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°EMiyajima — 36.98°N, 139.82°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EØlst — 56.84°N, 9.00°EØlst — 56.57°N, 9.00°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WKap København — 82.32°N, 23.85°WDabeigou — 41.67°N, 116.39°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EMasaragawa — 38.25°N, 138.41°ELatah — 47.65°N, 117.44°WLatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°W

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The named rock units Ichneumonoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 341 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ichneumonoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ichneumonoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

7,811 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 239 sites for Ichneumonoidea, and this reads all 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

204 references

Each of the 852 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. 192 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 Ichneumonoidea

Credit
Bruce Marlin
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ichneumonoidea 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802