Hemiptera

Hemiptera is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising more than 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs. They range in size from 1 mm (0.04 in) to around 15 cm (6 in), and share a common arrangement of piercing-sucking mouthparts. The name "true bugs" is sometimes limited to the suborder Heteroptera.

Hemiptera

see his respective owners · Public Domain · 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
true bugPBDB
Sits inside
CondylognathaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 319 million years on record.

The record covers at least 320 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 321.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 5671 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 545 of 5671 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 5671 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 127 of 5671 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 217 of 5671 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 405 of 5671 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 106 of 5671 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 319 of 5671 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 995 of 5671 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 431 of 5671 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 45 of 5671 occurrencesEocene — about 1329 of 5671 occurrencesOligocene — about 338 of 5671 occurrencesMiocene — about 639 of 5671 occurrencesPliocene — about 55 of 5671 occurrencesPleistocene — about 63 of 5671 occurrences328–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–306 Mya — about 3 occurrences306–295 Mya — about 6 occurrences295–284 Mya — about 29 occurrences284–273 Mya — about 96 occurrences273–262 Mya — about 274 occurrences262–251 Mya — about 144 occurrences251–240 Mya — about 48 occurrences240–229 Mya — about 128 occurrences229–218 Mya — about 71 occurrences218–208 Mya — about 74 occurrences208–197 Mya — about 77 occurrences197–186 Mya — about 47 occurrences186–175 Mya — about 308 occurrences175–164 Mya — about 64 occurrences164–153 Mya — about 191 occurrences153–142 Mya — about 180 occurrences142–131 Mya — about 48 occurrences131–120 Mya — about 361 occurrences120–109 Mya — about 546 occurrences109–98 Mya — about 134 occurrences98–87 Mya — about 243 occurrences87–76 Mya — about 60 occurrences76–66 Mya — about 27 occurrences66–55 Mya — about 72 occurrences55–44 Mya — about 263 occurrences44–33 Mya — about 1061 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 334 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 584 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 199 occurrences320 Mya11.7 ka328 Mya0 Mya

5,671 occurrences of Hemiptera 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

5,671 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

311 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.55°N, 43.67°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.59°N, 42.57°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.60°N, 43.62°EYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EYixian — 41.33°N, 119.13°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.51°N, 118.85°EYixian — 41.38°N, 116.28°EYixian — 40.91°N, 117.92°EYixian — 41.15°N, 117.96°EYixian — 42.04°N, 116.63°EYixian — 41.03°N, 118.92°EYixian — 41.58°N, 121.06°EYixian — 41.53°N, 121.10°EYixian — 42.74°N, 125.37°EYixian — 40.97°N, 117.90°EYixian — 42.08°N, 116.68°EYixian — 41.83°N, 121.13°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°EDaohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EDaohugou — 41.37°N, 119.38°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ERott — 50.60°N, 7.25°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EPosidonia Shale — 52.35°N, 10.74°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.59°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.68°EPosidonia Shale — 52.05°N, 10.13°ECroudace Bay — 33.02°S, 151.67°ECroudace Bay — 32.98°S, 151.65°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WCrato — 7.12°S, 39.76°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.35°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.78°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.40°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 38.90°N, 109.20°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 41.82°N, 110.76°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WGreen River — 39.52°N, 108.53°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.08°WGreen River — 42.13°N, 110.13°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 39.73°N, 107.98°WKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°EKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGurvan-Eren — 48.07°N, 91.65°EGurvan-Eren — 46.30°N, 93.90°EGurvan-Eren — 46.30°N, 93.80°EGurvan-Eren — 46.99°N, 95.46°EGurvan-Eren — 48.45°N, 92.27°EMadygen — 40.05°N, 70.21°EMadygen — 40.03°N, 70.25°EMadygen — 40.00°N, 70.20°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ELaiyang — 37.05°N, 120.96°ELaiyang — 37.03°N, 120.79°ELaiyang — 37.05°N, 120.79°ELaiyang — 37.01°N, 120.86°ELaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EMitina — 53.55°N, 87.25°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Hemiptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 287 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,954 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hemiptera and its relatives

Eocene

Where Hemiptera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

6,964 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 492 sites for Hemiptera, and this reads 240 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

1,386 references

Each of the 5,671 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. 1,374 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 Hemiptera

Credit
see his respective owners
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hemiptera 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.

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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758