Phygadeuontinae
Phygadeuontini is a tribe of ichneumon wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. It is the only tribe in the subfamily Phygadeuontinae. There are about 123 genera in 12 subtribes worldwide.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchneumonidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 129 ka.
29 occurrences of Phygadeuontinae 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
29 occurrences- Eocene62%
- Oligocene10%
- Miocene21%
- Pleistocene7%
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
8 formations
- Florissant Formation8
- Bouldnor Formation · Solent Group5
- Shanwang Formation4
- Rott Formation3
- Miyajima Formation · Shiobara Group2
- Grubstake Formation1
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The named rock units Phygadeuontinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phygadeuontinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Phygadeuontinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,721 taxa- Ichneumonidae3 sites
- Lepidoptera3 sites
- Pimplinae3 sites
- Acalyptratae2 sites
- Aeolothrips jarzembowskii2 sites
- Aleyrodidae2 sites
- Allodahlia shanwangensis2 sites
- Anglogomphaeschna eocenica2 sites
- Aphidoidea2 sites
- Awightipsocus jarzembowskii2 sites
- Beraeodes vectensis2 sites
- Berosus barclayi2 sites
- Betulaphis kozlovi2 sites
- Bibio oligocenus2 sites
- Bibio tranopterus2 sites
- Bibio varineurus2 sites
- Bibiodes confluens2 sites
- Bledius2 sites
- Calosoma maderae2 sites
- Camponotites ambon2 sites
- Camponotites cockerelli2 sites
- Camponotites shanwangensis2 sites
- Camponotus2 sites
- Ceratopogon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Phygadeuontinae, 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
13 references- The parasitic Hymenoptera of the Tertiary of Florissant, Colorado8
- The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK3
- Zhang, 19893
- Ueber alte und neue fossile Hymenopterenfunde aus den Tertiaren Ablagerungen von Rott am Siebengebirge3
- Fossil Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Middle Pleistocene Shiobara Group, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan2
- Three taphonomic stories of three new fossil species of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)2
- Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum, V. Oligocene Hymenoptera from the Isle of Wight2
- Impact of increasing morphological information by micro‑CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber1
- Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in Lower Eocene amber from the Paris basin1
- Insects from the upper Miocene Grubstake Formation of Alaska1
- Zhang et al., 19941
- Eocene Insects from the Rocky Mountains1
Each of the 29 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 further reference is 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 Phygadeuontinae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Phygadeuontinae 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 itIchneumonidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Förster 1869)