Pentatomidae

Pentatomidae is a family of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, generally called shield bugs or stink bugs. Pentatomidae is the largest family in the superfamily Pentatomoidea, and contains around 900 genera and over 4700 species. As hemipterans, the pentatomids have piercing sucking mouthparts, and most are phytophagous, including several species which are severe pests on agricultural crops. However, some species, particularly in the subfamily Asopinae, are predatory and may be considered beneficial.

Pentatomidae

Sandy Rae · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
stink bugPBDB
Sits inside
PentatomoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 135 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 135 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 135 occurrencesEocene — about 39 of 135 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 135 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 44 of 135 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 135 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 135 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 6 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 7 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–33 Mya — about 21 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 11 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 7 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 16 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 15 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.1–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences113.2 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

135 occurrences of Pentatomidae 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

135 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

30 formations

Upper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EMasaragawa — 38.25°N, 138.41°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WØlst — 56.86°N, 8.62°EØlst — 56.90°N, 8.75°ELatah — 47.65°N, 117.44°WTranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WHydrobienkalk — 50.04°N, 8.24°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.70°WRenova — 45.21°N, 112.18°WMogotuin — 44.12°N, 106.92°ECypris — 50.13°N, 12.52°EAtanikerluk — 70.06°N, 52.22°WVentana — 41.10°S, 70.82°WMiyajima — 36.98°N, 139.82°E

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The named rock units Pentatomidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pentatomidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pentatomidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,510 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Pentatomidae, 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

52 references

Each of the 135 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. 40 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 content3

Picture of Pentatomidae

Credit
Sandy Rae
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pentatomidae indet. · ypm:ent:618728

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
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The description on this site

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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 itPentatomoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1815