Chrysidoidea

The superfamily Chrysidoidea is a very large cosmopolitan group, all of which are parasitoids or cleptoparasites of other insects. There are three large, common families and four small, rare families. Most species are small, almost never exceeding 15 mm. This superfamily is traditionally considered to be the basal taxon within the Aculeata, and, as such, some species can sting, though the venom is harmless to humans.

Chrysidoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AculeataPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 35 of 418 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 156 of 418 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 418 occurrencesEocene — about 173 of 418 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 418 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 46 of 418 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 418 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 418 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 9 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 4 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 5 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 7 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 46 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 84 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 6 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 13 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 5 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 9 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 8 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 141 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 13 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 22 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 23 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

418 occurrences of Chrysidoidea 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

418 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

22 formations

Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WDzun-Bain — 45.45°N, 99.13°EOla — 60.17°N, 150.49°ERaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WYanigua — 19.55°N, 70.60°WDolgan — 70.17°N, 86.82°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°Wla Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WRott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EGidarinskaya — 51.31°N, 119.61°ETurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°EInubouzaki — 35.71°N, 140.87°EKizi — 45.48°N, 137.21°EGreen River — 39.51°N, 108.03°W

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The named rock units Chrysidoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 348 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chrysidoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Chrysidoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,435 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 127 sites for Chrysidoidea, 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

149 references

Each of the 418 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. 137 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 Chrysidoidea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Chrysidoidea 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAculeata through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802