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Hellwigia

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Description

Hellwigia is a genus of ichneumon wasps.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellwigia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1304076	https://www.gbif.org/species/1304076
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	141365	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=141365

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae : Hellwigia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
order	Hymenoptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Unicalcarida	Schulmeister et al. 2002
suborder	Vespina
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
superfamily	Ichneumonoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Ichneumonidae	Latreille 1802
-	Ophioniformes	Gauld 1985
subfamily	Tersilochinae	Schmiedeknecht 1910
genus	Hellwigia	Gravenhorst 1823

Scientific Name

Hellwigia Gravenhorst, 1823

Name Published In

Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol., 11 (2)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Hellwigia	genus	belongs to Porizontinae	stated with evidence	Townes, 1966
Hellwigia	genus	belongs to Ichneumonidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. M. Carpenter. 1992. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4:1-655

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellwigia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Hellwigia elegans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hellwigia obscura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hellwigia obsoleta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Diamon Gistl, 1848	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae : *Diamon*
Helwigia Latreille, 1829	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae : *Helwigia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1823	Hellwigia Gravenhorst p. 318
1910	Protohellwigia Brues
1966	Hellwigia Townes p. 132
1992	Hellwigia Carpenter

References

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

Brues C. T. (1910) The parasitic Hymenoptera of the Tertiary of Florissant, Colorado, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 44 1, 3-125

Townes H. (1966) Notes on Three Fossil Genera of Ichneumonidae, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 68, 132-135

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol., 11 (2) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Wahl, 1999 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Forshage (2009) Ichneumonidae - Utdrag ur egen Hymenoptera-lista (excel-fil 2009-08-09) - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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