Fulgoridae

The family Fulgoridae is a large group of hemipteran insects, especially abundant and diverse in the tropics, containing over 125 genera worldwide. They are mostly of moderate to large size, many with a superficial resemblance to Lepidoptera due to their brilliant and varied coloration. Various genera and species are sometimes referred to as lanternflies or lanthorn flies.

Fulgoridae

Richard Ling <wikipedia@rling.com> · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
fulgorid planthopperPBDB
Sits inside
FulgoroideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.09 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 13 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–5.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.8–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48.07 Mya8.725 Mya57 Mya4 Mya

31 occurrences of Fulgoridae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

31 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

6 formations

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°WNiubao — 32.03°N, 89.77°E

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The named rock units Fulgoridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fulgoridae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Fulgoridae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Fulgoridae, 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

14 references

Each of the 31 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. 2 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 Fulgoridae

Credit
Richard Ling <wikipedia@rling.com>
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fulgoridae 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 itFulgoroidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1807