Sciara katoi
No picture of Sciara katoi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sciara katoi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SciaraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 645 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sciara katoi on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
- Miyajima Formation · Shiobara Group2
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The named rock units Sciara katoi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sciara katoi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Sciara katoi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Camponotus2 sites
- Aptesini1 site
- Banchus shiobaraensis1 site
- Bombus (Megabombus) diversus1 site
- Campopleginae1 site
- Ceratophyus yatagaii1 site
- Cryptini1 site
- Ectopria opaca1 site
- Ichneumonidae1 site
- Ichneumoninae1 site
- Ichneumonini1 site
- Lasius1 site
- Malacopsephenoides japonicus1 site
- Microleptes1 site
- Nematinae1 site
- Orthocentrus1 site
- Phygadeuontinae1 site
- Pimpla1 site
- Pimplinae1 site
- Polistes1 site
- Psepheninae1 site
- Sieboldius albardae1 site
- Stibeutes1 site
- Tenthredinidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sciara katoi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sciara katoi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sciara katoi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sciara katoi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSciara through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aiba and Menzel 2026