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Cretamystilus

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Cretamystilus
Temporal range: Cenomanian,
99 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ Distant, W.L. (1904) Rhynchotal notes XXVIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (7) 14, 425–430.