Mimarachnidae

Mimarachnidae is an extinct family of planthoppers known from the Cretaceous period. Their name is derived from spots on the wings of the first described genera, Mimarachne and Saltissus, being suggestive of spider mimicry,[1] but these characters are not distinctive for the family as a whole.[2] The family is characterised by "simplified venation and setigerous metatibial pecten and hind leg amature".[3] as well as "rounded anterior margin of pronotum, double carination of pronotum and mesonotum"[2]

Mimarachnidae
Temporal range: Barremian–Turonian
Mimaplax ekrypsan
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Superfamily: Fulgoroidea
Family: †Mimarachnidae
Shcherbakov 2007
Genera

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Genera
  • †Ayaimatum Jiang and Szwedo in Jiang et al. 2020[4] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
    • †Ayaimatum trilobatum Jiang and Szwedo in Jiang et al. 2020
  • †Burmissus Shcherbakov 2017[5] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
    • †Burmissus raunoi Shcherbakov 2017
    • †Burmissus szwedoi Luo et al. 2020[6]
    • †Burmissus latimaculatus Fu and Huang, 2020[7]
  • †Chalicoridulum Szwedo and Ansorge 2015[8] La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain, Barremian
    • †Chalicoridulum montsecensis Szwedo and Ansorge 2015
  • †Cretodorus Fu and Huang, 2020[7] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
    • †Cretodorus granulatus Fu and Huang, 2020
    • †Cretodorus angustus Fu and Huang, 2020
  • †Dachibangus Jiang et al. 2018[2] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
    • †Dachibangus formosus Fu et al. 2019[9]
    • †Dachibangus trimaculatus Jiang et al. 2018
  • †Jaculistilus Zhang et al. 2018[10] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
    • †Jaculistilus oligotrichus Zhang et al. 2018
  • †Mimamontsecia Szwedo and Ansorge 2015[8] La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain, Barremian
    • †Mimamontsecia cretacea Szwedo and Ansorge 2015
  • †Mimaplax Jiang et al. 2019[3] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
    • †Mimaplax ekrypsan Jiang et al. 2019
  • †Mimarachne Shcherbakov 2007[1] Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
    • †Mimarachne mikhailovi Shcherbakov 2007
  • †Nipponoridium Szwedo 2008[11] Kuwajima Formation, Japan, Lower Cretaceous
    • †Nipponoridium matsuoi Fujiyama 1978[12] (Formerly Fulgoridium)
  • †Saltissus Shcherbakov 2007[1] Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
    • †Saltissus eskovi Shcherbakov 2007

Undescribed specimens are known from the Early Cretaceous Turga and Khetana localities of Russia, the Barremian-Aptian Khurilt locality of Mongolia, and the Turonian Kzyl-Zhar locality of Kazakhstan.

References
  1. "Mesozoic spider mimics — Cretaceous Mimarachnidae fam.n. (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea)". Russian Entomological Journal. 16 (3): 259–264. 2007.
  2. Jiang, Tian; Szwedo, Jacek; Wang, Bo (September 2018). "A giant fossil Mimarachnidae planthopper from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha)". Cretaceous Research. 89: 183–190. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.03.020. ISSN 0195-6671.
  3. Jiang, Tian; Szwedo, Jacek; Wang, Bo (2019-09-11). "A unique camouflaged mimarachnid planthopper from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 13112. Bibcode:2019NatSR...913112J. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-49414-4. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 6739471. PMID 31511621. S2CID 202558214.
  4. JIANG Tian, SZWEDO Jacek, SONG Zhi-shun, CHEN Jun, LI Yu-ling and JIANG Hui (2020). "Ayaimatum trilobatum gen. et sp. nov. of Mimarachnidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from mid-Cretaceous amber from Kachin (northern Myanmar)". Acta Palaeontologica Sinica. 59 (1): 70–85.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. Shcherbakov, D. E. (December 2017). "First record of the Cretaceous family Mimarachnidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) in amber". Russian Entomological Journal (in Russian). 26 (1): 389–392. doi:10.15298/rusentj.26.4.12. ISSN 0132-8069.
  6. Luo, Cihang; Jiang, Tian; Wang, Bo; Xiao, Chuantao (June 2020). "A new species of Burmissus (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Mimarachnidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 110: 104417. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104417.
  7. Fu, Yanzhe; Huang, Diying (2020-06-30). "New data on fossil mimarachnids (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Fulgoroidea) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Palaeoentomology. 3 (3): 317–331. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.3.12. ISSN 2624-2834.
  8. Szwedo, Jacek; Ansorge, Jörg (January 2015). "The first Mimarachnidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from Lower Cretaceous lithographic limestones of the Sierra del Montsec in Spain". Cretaceous Research. 52: 390–401. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2014.03.001.
  9. Fu, Yanzhe; Szwedo, Jacek; Azar, Dany; Huang, Diying (November 2019). "A second species of Dachibangus (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Mimarachnidae) in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar". Cretaceous Research. 103: 104170. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.06.016.
  10. Zhang, Xiao; Ren, Dong; Yao, Yunzhi (October 2018). "A new genus and species of Mimarachnidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoroidea) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 90: 168–173. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.04.012. ISSN 0195-6671.
  11. Szwedo, Jacek (2008-12-01). "Verbreitung und pläontologische Eigenheiten der unterkretazischen Mimarachnidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha)". Entomologia Generalis. 31 (3): 231–242. doi:10.1127/entom.gen/31/2008/231. ISSN 0171-8177.
  12. I. Fujiyama. 1978. Some fossil insects from the Tedori Group (Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous), Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series C, Geology & Paleontology 4:181-192
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