Pentatominae

Pentatominae is a subfamily of Pentatomidae, a family of shield bugs. This subfamily is the largest one within the Pentatomidae, having 4937 species classified in 938 genera. Species in this subfamily are phytophages and several of them are considered agricultural pests. Some invasive pentatomines such as Halyomorpha halys and Bagrada hilaris have been considered household pests. Higher systematics of the group have been revised by Rider et al.

Pentatominae

Darkone ( talk · contribs ) · 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
PentatomidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 70 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 70 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 70 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 32 of 70 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 70 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 70 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 17 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

70 occurrences of Pentatominae 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

70 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

12 formations

Upper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EFlorissant — 38.95°N, 105.29°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ELatah — 47.65°N, 117.44°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ECypris — 50.13°N, 12.52°EAtanikerluk — 70.06°N, 52.22°WMiyajima — 36.98°N, 139.82°EMaisawa — 36.20°N, 138.63°E

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The named rock units Pentatominae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pentatominae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pentatominae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,777 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Pentatominae, 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

23 references

Each of the 70 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. 11 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 Pentatominae

Credit
Darkone ( talk · contribs )
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pentatominae 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

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