Cretevania

{{Short description|Extinct genus of wasps}}

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{{Taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Cretaceous}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Hymenoptera

| familia = Evaniidae

| genus = Cretevania

| genus_authority = Rasnitsyn, 1975

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • see text

| synonyms =

Genus-level:

  • Eovernevania Deans, 2004
  • Procretevania Zhang & Zhang, 2000

Species-level:

  • Eovernevania cyrtocerca Deans, 2004
  • Procretevania pristina Zhang & Zhang, 2000
  • Procretevania vesca Zhang, Rasnitsyn, Wang & Zhang, 2007
  • Procretevania exquisita Zhang, Rasnitsyn, Wang & Zhang, 2007

}}

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.{{Cite journal |author=Enrique Peñalver |author2=Jaime Ortega-Blanco |author3=André Nel |author4=Xavier Delclòs |year=2010 |title=Mesozoic Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in Spanish Amber: Reanalysis of the Phylogeny of the Evanioidea |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition |volume=84 |issue=4 |pages=809–827 |doi=10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00257.x |bibcode=2010AcGlS..84..809P |s2cid=83716591 }} the genus was described by Rasnitsyn in 1975, and the type species is Cretevania minor.

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).

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|label1=Evanioidea

|1={{clade

|1=Praeaulacinae

|2={{clade

|1=Evaniops

|2=Evanigaster }}

|3=Cretocleistogastrinae

|4=Andrenelia

|5=Sorellevania

|6={{clade

|1=Baissinae

|2={{clade

|1=Aulacinae

|2={{clade

|1=Kotujellitinae

|2=Gesteruptiinae }} }} }}

|7={{clade

|1=Lebanevania

|2=Mesevania }}

|8={{clade

|1=Protoparevania

|2={{clade

|1=Grimaldivania

|2={{clade

|1=Iberoevania

|2={{clade

|1=Newjersevania

|2={{clade

|1=Eoevania

|2=Vernevania

|3=Acanthinevania

|4=Trissevania

|label5=Cretevania

|5={{clade

|1=Eovernevania (syn., Lebanon specimens)

|2={{clade

|1=Procretevania (syn., Chinese specimens)

|2=Cretevania }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }}

References