Arginae
Arginae is a subfamily of argid sawflies in the family Argidae. There are about 12 genera and more than 400 described species in Arginae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArgidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Arginae 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Arginae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Arginae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Corixinae2 sites
- Kalotermitidae2 sites
- Ulmeriella2 sites
- Anisops privasensis1 site
- Apis1 site
- Belostomatidae1 site
- Boyeria europaea1 site
- Calopterygoidea1 site
- Carabus (Tachypus) cancellatus1 site
- Celithemis cantalensis1 site
- Corixidae1 site
- Dicladispa muratensis1 site
- Gomphidae1 site
- Halictus messinicus1 site
- Ibalia1 site
- Inocelliidae1 site
- Isoscelipteron bertrandi1 site
- Lasioglossum (Dialictus) muratense1 site
- Lestoidea1 site
- Megalomus sp.1 site
- Mioarge azari1 site
- Miotingis cantalensis1 site
- Naucoroidea1 site
- Perlomyia cantalensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Arginae, 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
Media content1
Picture of Arginae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- xpda
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Arginae 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Arginae”
- 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 itArgidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Konow 1890