Homoptera

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.

Homoptera

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 252 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Permian — about 6 of 24 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 24 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 24 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 24 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences272–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–245 Mya — about 5 occurrences245–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–227 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–209 Mya — about 1 occurrence209–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence200–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–181 Mya — about 1 occurrence181–172 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences172–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–136 Mya — about 3 occurrences136–127 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences127–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences109–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–91 Mya — about 3 occurrences91–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–9.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.2–102 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences264.28 Mya11.63 Mya272 Mya102 ka

24 occurrences of Homoptera on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

24 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

16 formations

Blackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EEstcourt — 29.50°S, 30.17°EEstcourt — 29.17°S, 30.00°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLulworth — 50.65°N, 2.37°WPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°ECrato — 7.12°S, 39.76°WSulyukta — 40.03°N, 70.50°EHanshan — 31.74°N, 118.06°EBotchi — 47.99°N, 139.45°ECroudace Bay — 32.98°S, 151.65°EKazankovo-Markinskaya — 53.92°N, 87.25°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°EHuangshanjie — 43.13°N, 88.18°EMount Crosby — 27.55°S, 152.78°EWeald Clay — 51.14°N, 0.33°WAntero — 39.11°N, 105.71°W

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The named rock units Homoptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Homoptera and its relatives

Permian

Where Homoptera and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

552 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Homoptera, 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

21 references

Each of the 24 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. 9 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 Homoptera

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

No 3D scan of Homoptera 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 itHemiptera through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leach 1815)