Pimplinae
Pimplinae are a worldwide subfamily of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae.

James K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- PimpliformesPBDB
- 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.
82 occurrences of Pimplinae 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
82 occurrences- Eocene73%
- Oligocene18%
- Miocene1%
- Pliocene1%
- Pleistocene6%
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
18 formations
- Fur Formation18
- Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation7
- Ølst Formation6
- Messel Formation5
- Green River Formation4
- Florissant Formation4
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The named rock units Pimplinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pimplinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pimplinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,021 taxa- Coleoptera8 sites
- Curculionidae8 sites
- Formicidae8 sites
- Epitheronia stigmatica7 sites
- Formica7 sites
- Lepidoptera6 sites
- Plecia foersteri6 sites
- Plecia livida6 sites
- Protainophthalmus margarus6 sites
- Tipula6 sites
- Aphanus pulchellus5 sites
- Chironomidae5 sites
- Heterogaster pumilio5 sites
- Ichneumonidae5 sites
- Lasius5 sites
- Plagiodera lyelliana5 sites
- Plecia bucklandi5 sites
- Protainophthalmus asperulus5 sites
- Apis (Synapis) henshawi4 sites
- Bibio4 sites
- Bibio curtisii4 sites
- Bibionidae4 sites
- Cydnus brevicollis4 sites
- Dilophus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Pimplinae, 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
34 references- High diversity of pimpline parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) from the lowermost Eocene Fur Formation (Denmark)23
- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France7
- Seven remarkable new fossil species of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Eocene Messel Pit4
- The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK4
- Fossil ichneumon wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Biamo (Russia), Oligocene4
- Fossil Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Middle Pleistocene Shiobara Group, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan3
- Ichneumonid parasitoid wasps from the Early Eocene Green River Formation: five new species and a revision of the known fauna (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)3
- The insects of the Tertiary beds at Quesnel (British Colombia)3
- New ichneumonids (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Eocene Tadushi Formation, Russian Far East2
- Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland2
- An Oligocene micropalaeoentomofauna from Gubei District of Shandong and its ecological environment2
- Ueber alte und neue fossile Hymenopterenfunde aus den Tertiaren Ablagerungen von Rott am Siebengebirge2
Each of the 82 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. 22 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 Pimplinae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- James K. Lindsey
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pimplinae 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pimplinae”
- 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 itPimpliformes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wesmael 1845