Lepidopsocidae

Lepidopsocidae are an insect family of bark lice belonging to the suborder Trogiomorpha. Their common name is scaly-winged barklice. There are more than 220 species described worldwide. Phylogenetic DNA analysis of relationships between families in Trogiomorpha propose that Lepidopsocidae is monophyletic, meaning that the taxa within all share a common ancestor. This is supported morphologically by the presence of scales and setae covering the body and forewings of Lepodopsocids. Sister families of Lepidoposcidae include Trogiidae and Psoquillidae.

Lepidopsocidae

Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA · CC BY 2.0 · 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
Also called
scaly-winged bark lousePBDB
Sits inside
AtropetaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

7 occurrences of Lepidopsocidae on record. 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

7 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

2 formations

Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EKabaw — 21.68°N, 94.08°E

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The named rock units Lepidopsocidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lepidopsocidae, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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 Lepidopsocidae

Credit
Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lepidopsocidae 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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What may have been alongside itAtropetae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Enderlein 1903