Culicoides speciosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CulicoidesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Culicoides speciosus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
8 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Culicoides speciosus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Culicoides speciosus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,066 taxa- Eohelea sinuosa8 sites
- Ceratopogon7 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis7 sites
- Monogedania clunipes7 sites
- Prenolepis henschei7 sites
- Tetraponera simplex7 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi7 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus6 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti6 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi6 sites
- Gnamptogenys europaea6 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri6 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea6 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea6 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni6 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi6 sites
- Serromyia6 sites
- Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) falcata6 sites
- Bradoponera meieri5 sites
- Ceratopogon hennigi5 sites
- Fallomyrma transversa5 sites
- Forcipomyia5 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia)5 sites
- Formica gustawi5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Culicoides speciosus, 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
4 references- Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber3
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Eocene Baltic amber from the Rovno region (Ukraine)2
- Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Miocene Saxonian amber2
- Monographie des Cecidomyidae, des Sciaridae, des Mycetophilidae et des Chironomidae de l'ambre de la Baltique1
Each of the 8 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. 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 content0
No picture of Culicoides speciosus 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 Culicoides speciosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Culicoides speciosus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCulicoides through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meunier 1904)