Braconidae

The Braconidae are a family of parasitoid wasps. After the closely related Ichneumonidae, braconids make up the second-largest family in the order Hymenoptera, with about 17,000 recognized species and many thousands more undescribed. One analysis estimated a total between 30,000 and 50,000, and another provided a narrower estimate between 42,000 and 43,000 species.

Braconidae

Richard Bartz , Munich aka Makro Freak · 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
IchneumonoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 143 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 362 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 25 of 362 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 362 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 362 occurrencesEocene — about 235 of 362 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 58 of 362 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 362 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 362 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 362 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 11 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 7 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 11 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 7 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 9 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 9 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 121 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 107 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 27 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 20 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences143.1 Mya11.7 ka152 Mya0 Mya

362 occurrences of Braconidae 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

362 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

27 formations

Bouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EGreen River — 39.98°N, 109.11°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ENaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°EAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EUlugei — 44.42°N, 104.13°EHotont — 47.37°N, 102.39°EMasaragawa — 38.25°N, 138.41°EMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°EBembridge Marls — 50.75°N, 1.34°WTsagaantsav — 44.52°N, 109.45°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WTranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°W

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The named rock units Braconidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 216 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Braconidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Braconidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 99 sites for Braconidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

97 references

Each of the 362 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. 85 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 Braconidae

Credit
Richard Bartz , Munich aka Makro Freak
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
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. Nees ab Esenbeck 1811