Tinginae
The Tinginae are a subfamily of lace bugs. Three tribes were included in Froeschner's analysis.

Didier Descouens · 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
- TingidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 93 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.
65 occurrences of Tinginae 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
65 occurrences- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
- Late Cretaceous15%
- Eocene42%
- Oligocene3%
- Miocene29%
- Pleistocene2%
- Holocene9%
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
12 formations
- Florissant Formation3
- Messel Formation3
- Bouldnor Formation · Solent Group2
- Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation1
- Yanigua Formation1
- Kizi Formation1
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The named rock units Tinginae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tinginae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tinginae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
4,033 taxa- Lepidoptera4 sites
- Parasinalda baltica4 sites
- Prosphyracephala succini4 sites
- Raptophasma kerneggeri4 sites
- Zygoptera4 sites
- Aradus grabenhorsti3 sites
- Archaea paradoxa3 sites
- Archipseudophasmatidae3 sites
- Balticophasma3 sites
- Balticoroma serafinorum3 sites
- Calisius balticus3 sites
- Chironomidae3 sites
- Coleoptera3 sites
- Cupes groehni3 sites
- Cupes rohdendorfi3 sites
- Dynastinae3 sites
- Electrapis3 sites
- Eocader babyrussus3 sites
- Formicidae3 sites
- Gryllidae3 sites
- Harpactosphecion sucinum3 sites
- Heissiana serafini3 sites
- Neomachilellus (Praeneomachilellus) dominicanus3 sites
- Proxylastodoris gerdae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Tinginae, 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
41 references- Cantacaderid lace bugs from the Baltic amber (Heteroptera: Tingidae, Cantacaderinae)6
- First fossil records of Tingidae from Madagascan Copal with description of two new species (Hemiptera, Heteroptera)5
- New Cenozoic lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae)4
- Two new species of lace bugs from Dominican amber and a new species from Colombian copal (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae)3
- New fossil lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae) from the Middle Eocene of the Grube Messel (Germany), with a catalog of fossil lace bugs3
- New cantacaderid lace bugs from Dominican amber (Heteroptera: Tingidae, Cantacaderinae)3
- A new genus and two new species of lace bugs (Tingidae, Tinginae, Phatnomatini) from Late Cretaceous Burmese amber2
- New lacebugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber2
- Two new species of lace bugs from Dominican amber (Heteroptera: Tingidae, Tinginae)2
- Archepopovia yurii n. gen. n. sp. a new remarkable lace bug from Baltic amber, with some notes on phylogeny and classification of Tingidae (Heteroptera, Tingidae)2
- Nouveaux Tingidae fossiles du Cénozoïque de France (Heteroptera)2
- The Tertiary Insects of North America2
Each of the 65 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. 29 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 Tinginae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Didier Descouens
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tinginae 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Tinginae”
- 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 itTingidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laporte 1833