Miralidae

Miralidae Temporal range: Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Paratype male of Dingla shagria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily:	Psylloidea
Family:	† Miralidae (Shcherbakov, 2020) [1]
Genera
† Alloeopterus † Dingla † Mirala † Pictala
Synonyms
Dinglidae Szwedo & Drohojowska, 2020

Dingla shagria holotype

Miralidae, formerly known as Miralinae ^[1] and synonymous with Dinglidae, ^[2] is an extinct family of hemipteran insects belonging to the suborder Sternorrhyncha. Upon its description as Dinglidae, it was found to not belong to any of the major living sternorrhynchan subgroups, and was thought to be a distinct lineage most closely related to whiteflies until a 2025 paper found it to be within Psylloidea. ^[2] The family contains four genera, all of which are known from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar. ^{[3] [4] [2]}

References

1. Shcherbakov, D. E. (December 2020). "New Homoptera from the Early Cretaceous of Buryatia with notes on the insect fauna of Khasurty". Russian Entomological Journal. 29 (1): 127–138. doi:10.15298/rusentj.29.2.02.
2. Ivanov, Grigory A.; Vorontsov, Dmitry D.; Shcherbakov, Dmitry E. (April 2025). "A remarkable psyllomorph family from Cretaceous Burmese amber, Miralidae stat. nov. (= Dinglidae syn. nov.; Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha)". Cretaceous Research. 168: 106069. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106069.
3. Drohojowska, Jowita; Szwedo, Jacek; Żyła, Dagmara; Huang, Di-Ying; Müller, Patrick (2020-07-09). "Fossils reshape the Sternorrhyncha evolutionary tree (Insecta, Hemiptera)". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 11390. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68220-x . ISSN   2045-2322. PMC   7347605 .
4. Poinar_Jr., George; E._Brown, Alex (2020-12-18). "A new genus and species of the family Dinglidae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) in Burmese amber" . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 298 (3): 319–329. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2020/0951. ISSN   0077-7749.