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Ochteridae

Description

The Ochteridae comprise a small family of insects. Eight genera with about 80 species have been described. They occur worldwide along the shore of various types of water (for example, streams and ponds) and the greatest diversity is in tropical regions. They are "true bugs", being members of the order Hemiptera, and are in the suborder Heteroptera. Ochteridae commonly are known as the velvety shore bugs. They resemble the Saldidae shore bugs and have lengths ranging from 4.5 to 9 mm (0.18–0.35 in).


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)7893https://www.gbif.org/species/7893
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)190460https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=190460
Rankfamily
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Ochteridae
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumMandibulata
-Pancrustacea
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
-CercofilataKukalová-Peck 1987
classInsectaLinnaeus 1758
-Dicondylia
-ParanotaliaSroka et al. 2014
subclassPterygotaBrauer 1885
-NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
-ClareocercariaProkop et al. 2017
-Acercaria
superorderPancondylognathaYoshizawa and Leinhard 2016
-CondylognathaBörner 1904
orderHemipteraLinnaeus 1758
suborderHeteropteraLatreille 1810
infraorderNepomorphaPopov 1971
superfamilyGelastocoroideaKirkaldy 1897
familyOchteridaeKirkaldy 1906
Common Namevelvety shore bug
Scientific NameOchteridae
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Ochteridaefamilybelongs to Gelastocoroideastated with evidencePopov, 1971
Ochteridaefamilybelongs to Nepomorphastated with evidencePopov et al., 1994
Ochteridaefamilybelongs to Ochteroideastated with evidenceYao et al., 2007
Ochteridaefamilybelongs to Gelastocoroideastated with evidenceSzwedo, 2018
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)11
Extant Size (PBDB)1 (9.1%)
First Recorded Appearance197 - 190 Ma
Early Jurassic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)Y. T. Yao, W. T. Zhang, and D. Ren, C. K. Shih. 2011. New fossil Ochteridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Ochteroidea) from the Upper Mesozoic of north-eastern China, with phylogeny of the family. Systematic Entomology 36:589-600
Common Name(s) Velvety Shore Bugs, Velvety Shore Bug
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochteridae

External Images

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Propreocorinae
subfamily
listed (PBDB)1197 Ma
Early Jurassic
197 Ma
Early Jurassic
Angulochterus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Floricaudus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Megochterus
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Ochterus
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Ocyochterus
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Pristinochterus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
5125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Propreocoris
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1197 Ma
Early Jurassic
197 Ma
Early Jurassic
Riegerochterus
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1906Ochteridae Kirkaldy
1971Ochteridae Popov p. 98
1994Ochteridae Popov et al.
2007Ochteridae Yao et al. p. 827
2011Ochteridae Yao et al. p. 592
2018Ochteridae Szwedo p. 112

References

Yao Y. T., Zhang W. T., et al (2011) New fossil Ochteridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Ochteroidea) from the Upper Mesozoic of north-eastern China, with phylogeny of the family, Systematic Entomology 36, 589-600
Popov Y. A. (1971) Historical development of the infraorder Nepomorpha (Heteroptera), Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 129, 1-228
Popov Y. A., Dolling W. R., et al (1994) British Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic Heteroptera and Coleorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera), Genus 5 4, 307-347
Yao Y., Cai W., et al (2007) Pristinochterus gen. n. (Hemiptera: Ochteridae) from the Upper Mesozoic of northeastern China, European Journal of Entomology 104, 827-835
Szwedo J. (2018) The unity, diversity and conformity of bugs (Hemiptera) through time, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107, 109-128
Stys, Pavel, and Antti Jansson, 1988: Check-list of recent family-group and genus-group names of Nepomorpha (Heteroptera) of the world. Acta Entomologica Fennica, vol. 50. 1-44. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Henry, Thomas J., and Richard C. Froeschner, eds., 1988: null. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. xix + 958. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
McGavin, George C., 1993: null. Bugs of the World. 192. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
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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