Ibalia
Ibalia is a genus of ibaliid wasps in the family Ibaliidae. There are about 14 described species in Ibalia. All species are parasitoids of Siricidae species, which they seek out by detecting volatiles emitted by the fungi Siricidae larvae feed on, Amylostereum.

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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- Sits inside
- IbaliidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
2 occurrences of Ibalia on record. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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 the same rock
50 taxa- Apis1 site
- Archipseudophasma1 site
- Archipseudophasma phoenix1 site
- Archipseudophasmatidae1 site
- Archipseudophasmatinae1 site
- Arctorthezia1 site
- Arginae1 site
- Balticophasma1 site
- Boyeria europaea1 site
- Brachypsectridae1 site
- Calopterygoidea1 site
- Carabus (Tachypus) cancellatus1 site
- Celithemis cantalensis1 site
- Corixinae1 site
- Ctenoplectrella viridiceps1 site
- Dicladispa muratensis1 site
- Dipluridae1 site
- Gomphidae1 site
- Halictus messinicus1 site
- Harpactosphecion filicorne1 site
- Heissiana serafini1 site
- Inocelliidae1 site
- Isoscelipteron bertrandi1 site
- Kalotermitidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ibalia, 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
2 references- A new species of Ibaliid wasp in Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Ibaliidae)1
- Le premier représentant fossile du genre Ibalia dans le Miocène supérieur du Cantal (France) (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea)1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Ibalia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Ibalia rufipes · nhmw:hym:0000008
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Ibalia”
- 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 itIbaliidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802