Lytta

Lytta is a genus of blister beetles in the family Meloidae. There are about 70 described species in North America, and over 100 species worldwide.

Lytta

Judy Gallagher · 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
Sits inside
LyttiniPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.2–1.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.9–688 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33.9 Mya4.7 Mya37.7 Mya688 ka

5 occurrences of Lytta on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

3 formations

Upper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WRita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°W

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The named rock units Lytta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lytta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lytta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

405 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lytta, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 content2

Picture of Lytta

Credit
Judy Gallagher
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Lytta sp. · VPI:VTEC:VTEC000004847

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 itLyttini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fabricius 1775