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| Cretamystilus Temporal range: Cenomanian, | |
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Scientific 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]
