| Cretamystilus Temporal range: Cenomanian, | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Miridae |
| Genus: | †Cretamystilus Kim, Lim & Jung, 2021 |
| Species: | †C. herczeki |
| Binomial name | |
| †Cretamystilus herczeki Kim, Lim & Jung, 2021 | |
Cretamystilus (meaning "Cretaceous Mystilus") is an extinct genus of mirid insect in the tribe Mecistoscelini known from a fossil preserved in a piece of Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) Burmese amber from the Hukawng Valley, Myanmar. Cretamystilus, which was the first extinct genus to be named in 2021, contains a single species, C. herczeki.[1] Cretamystilus is the first member of the Miridae in the fossil record known to date.[1] It probably had a host association with bamboo plants, which is only hypothesized, and morphological characters of the holotype and similarity to the extant genus Mystilus (Distant, 1904)[2] are also present in Cretamystilus.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Kim, J.; Lim, H.; Jung, S. (2021). "A first member of bamboo-feeding lineage plant bug (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mecistoscelini) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 121: Article 104741. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104741. S2CID 233567365.
- ↑ Distant, W.L. (1904) Rhynchotal notes XXVIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (7) 14, 425–430.
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