Cretevania

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

Cretevania Temporal range: Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Evaniidae
Genus:	Cretevania Rasnitsyn, 1975
Species
see text
Synonyms
Genus-level: Eovernevania Deans, 2004 Procretevania Zhang & Zhang, 2000 Species-level: E. cyrtocerca Deans, 2004 P. pristina Zhang & Zhang, 2000 P. vesca Zhang, Rasnitsyn, Wang & Zhang, 2007 P. exquisita Zhang, Rasnitsyn, Wang & Zhang, 2007

Species

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

Phylogeny

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

Evanioidea

Praeaulacinae       Evaniops     Evanigaster       Cretocleistogastrinae     Andrenelia     Sorellevania       Baissinae       Aulacinae       Kotujellitinae     Gesteruptiinae             Lebanevania     Mesevania         Protoparevania       Grimaldivania       Iberoevania       Newjersevania       Eoevania     Vernevania     Acanthinevania     Trissevania    Cretevania    Eovernevania (syn., Lebanon specimens)       Procretevania (syn., Chinese specimens)     Cretevania

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. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00257.x.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)