Cretevania Explained

Cretevania is an extinct genus of Evaniidae, which lived in what is now China, Burma, England, Lebanon, Mongolia, Russia and Spain during the Cretaceous period.^[1] the genus was described by Rasnitsyn in 1975, and the type species is Cretevania minor.^[1]

Species

• Cretevania alcalai Peñalver et al., 2010
• Cretevania alonsoi Peñalver et al., 2010
• Cretevania bechlyi Jennings, Krogmann & Mew, 2013
• Cretevania concordia Rasnitsyn, Jarzembowski & Ross, 1998
• Cretevania cyrtocerca (Deans, 2004) Peñalver et al., 2010
• Cretevania exquisita (Zhang, Rasnitsyn, Wang & Zhang, 2007) Peñalver et al., 2010
• Cretevania major Rasnitsyn, 1975
• Cretevania meridionalis Rasnitsyn, 1991
• Cretevania minor Rasnitsyn, 1975 (type)
• Cretevania minuta Rasnitsyn, 1975
• Cretevania montoyai Peñalver et al., 2010
• Cretevania pristina (Zhang & Zhang, 2000) Peñalver et al., 2010
• Cretevania rubusensis Peñalver et al., 2010
• Cretevania tenuis Li et al., 2018
• Cretevania venae Li et al., 2018
• Cretevania vesca (Zhang et al., 2007) Peñalver et al., 2010

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Peñalver et al. (2010).^[1]

Notes and References

1. Enrique Peñalver . Jaime Ortega-Blanco . André Nel . Xavier Delclòs . 2010 . Mesozoic Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in Spanish Amber: Reanalysis of the Phylogeny of the Evanioidea . Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition . 84 . 4 . 809–827 . 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00257.x . 2010AcGlS..84..809P . 83716591 .