Tenthredinidae

Tenthredinidae is the largest family of sawflies, with well over 7,500 species worldwide, divided into 430 genera. Larvae are herbivores and typically feed on the foliage of trees and shrubs, with occasional exceptions that are leaf miners, stem borers, or gall makers. The larvae of externally feeding species resemble small caterpillars. As with all hymenopterans, common sawflies undergo complete metamorphosis.

Tenthredinidae

Richard Bartz · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
TenthredinoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 96 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 96 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 96 occurrencesEocene — about 60 of 96 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 96 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 96 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 96 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 96 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 7 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 45 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences113.2 Mya129 ka124 Mya0 Mya

96 occurrences of Tenthredinidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

96 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

15 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.55°N, 5.37°EMiyajima — 36.98°N, 139.82°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WLatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EAllenby — 49.46°N, 120.53°WLaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°ETranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WCampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°E

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The named rock units Tenthredinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tenthredinidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Tenthredinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,298 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Tenthredinidae, 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

45 references

Each of the 96 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. 33 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 Tenthredinidae

Credit
Richard Bartz
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
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

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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 itTenthredinoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802