Cretevania

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.^[1] the genus was described by Rasnitsyn in 1975, and the type species is Cretevania minor.^[1]

Cretevania Temporal range: Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Evaniidae
Genus:	Cretevania Rasnitsyn, 1975
Species
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

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).^[1]

Evanioidea	Praeaulacinae Evaniops Evanigaster Cretocleistogastrinae Andrenelia Sorellevania Baissinae Aulacinae Kotujellitinae Gesteruptiinae Lebanevania Mesevania Protoparevania Grimaldivania Iberoevania Newjersevania Eoevania Vernevania Acanthinevania Trissevania Cretevania Eovernevania (syn., Lebanon specimens) Procretevania (syn., Chinese specimens) Cretevania