Aleyrodoidea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AleyrodomorphaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 154 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 0 Mya.
62 occurrences of Aleyrodoidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
62 occurrences- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
- Late Jurassic6%
- Early Cretaceous24%
- Late Cretaceous15%
- Eocene47%
- Miocene3%
- Pliocene3%
- Holocene2%
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
10 formations
- Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation7
- Karabastau Formation3
- La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation1
- Hotont Formation1
- Tsagaantsav Formation1
- Bouldnor Formation · Solent Group1
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The named rock units Aleyrodoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aleyrodoidea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aleyrodoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
3,810 taxa- Aleyrodidae7 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi4 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea4 sites
- Prenolepis henschei4 sites
- Scelioninae4 sites
- Tetraponera ocellata4 sites
- Tetraponera simplex4 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi4 sites
- Attagenus hoffeinsorum3 sites
- Balticoroma serafinorum3 sites
- Bradoponera meieri3 sites
- Ceratopogonidae3 sites
- Corneliola avia3 sites
- Electrolotis hoffeinsorum3 sites
- Gnamptogenys europaea3 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri3 sites
- Libanochlites neocomicus3 sites
- Lype sericea3 sites
- Mengeaphis glandulosa3 sites
- Monogedania clunipes3 sites
- Neolitochropus bedovoyi3 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea3 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni3 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Aleyrodoidea, 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
35 references- First whiteflies from the Eocene amber of Denmark11
- The first Aleyrodidae from the lowermost Eocene Oise amber (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha)7
- The most primitive whiteflies (Hemiptera; Aleyrodidae; Bernaeinae subfam. nov.) from the Mesozoic of Asia and Burmese amber, with an overview of Burmese amber hemipterans6
- Early Cretaceous Aleyrodidae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) from the Lebanese amber4
- The whitefly puparia from Cretaceous amber reveal early subfamily diversification3
- Verwandtschaftsforschung an fossilen und rezenten Aleyrodina (Insecta; Hemiptera)2
- The discovery of a new aleurodicine whitefly in Cenomanian Burmese amber (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae)1
- Dinosaur bonebed amber from an original swamp forest soil1
- The whitefly subfamily Aleurodicinae (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae) in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, northern Myanmar1
- A new whitefly (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae) in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, northern Myanmar1
- Are contemporary whiteflies "living fossils"? Morphology and systematic status of the oldest representatives of the Middle-Late Jurassic Aleyrodomorpha (Sternorrhyncha, Hemiptera) from Daohugou1
- Aphids, true hoppers, jumping plant-lice, scale insects, true bugs and whiteflies (Insecta: Hemiptera) from the Insect Limestone (latest Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK1
Each of the 62 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. 23 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 Aleyrodoidea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aleyrodoidea 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAleyrodomorpha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.