Cretamystilus

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]

Cretamystilus Temporal range: Cenomanian, 99 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
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