Leptacis
Leptacis is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Platygastridae.

Benjamin Smith from United States · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
- PlatygastrinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
2 occurrences of Leptacis 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
154 taxa- Platygaster2 sites
- Abanaxipha longispina1 site
- Aetalionini1 site
- Agallia1 site
- Allostemma1 site
- Anthrax succini1 site
- Antillopsyche oliveri1 site
- Apocephalus succineus1 site
- Aradophagus1 site
- Archaeoellipes engeli1 site
- Archaeoteleia1 site
- Archiokrisna garciamarquezi1 site
- Atrichopogon1 site
- Atrichopogon dominicanus1 site
- Baeodasymyia dominicana1 site
- Brachypogon (Isohelea)1 site
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) dominicanus1 site
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominuloides1 site
- Brachypremna brodzinskii1 site
- Cacomorphocerus coleae1 site
- Cacomorphocerus marki1 site
- Calisiopsis brodzinskyorum1 site
- Calliscelio1 site
- Calotelea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Leptacis, 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
1 referenceEach 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 content1

Picture of Leptacis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Benjamin Smith from United States
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Leptacis”
- 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 itPlatygastrinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Förster 1856