Mimarachnidae

Mimarachnidae is an extinct family of planthoppers known from the Cretaceous period. Their name is derived from spots on the wings of the first described genera, Mimarachne and Saltissus, being suggestive of spider mimicry,^[1] but these characters are not distinctive for the family as a whole.^[2] The family is characterised by "simplified venation and setigerous metatibial pecten and hind leg armature".^[3] as well as "rounded anterior margin of pronotum, double carination of pronotum and mesonotum"^[2]

Mimarachnidae Temporal range: Barremian–Turonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Mimaplax ekrypsan
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:	Fulgoromorpha
Superfamily:	Fulgoroidea
Family:	†Mimarachnidae Shcherbakov, 2007
Genera
See text

Genera

• †Ayaimatum Jiang & Szwedo in Jiang et al., 2020^[4] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
  • †Ayaimatum trilobatum Jiang & Szwedo in Jiang et al., 2020
  • †Ayaimatum minutum Fu & Huang, 2021^[5]
• †Burmissus Shcherbakov, 2017^[6] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
  • †Burmissus raunoi Shcherbakov, 2017
  • †Burmissus szwedoi Luo et al., 2020^[7]
  • †Burmissus latimaculatus Fu & Huang, 2020^[8]
• †Chalicoridulum Szwedo & Ansorge, 2015^[9] La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain, Barremian
  • †Chalicoridulum montsecensis Szwedo & Ansorge, 2015
• †Cretodorus Fu & Huang, 2020^[8] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
  • †Cretodorus granulatus Fu & Huang, 2020
  • †Cretodorus angustus Fu & Huang, 2020
  • †Cretodorus rostellatus Zhang et al., 2021^[10]
• †Dachibangus Jiang et al., 2018^[2] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
  • †Dachibangus formosus Fu et al., 2019^[11]
  • †Dachibangus hui Zhang, Yao & Pang, 2021^[12]
  • †Dachibangus trimaculatus Jiang et al., 2018
• †Jaculistilus Zhang et al., 2018^[13] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
  • †Jaculistilus oligotrichus Zhang et al., 2018
• †Mimamontsecia Szwedo & Ansorge, 2015^[9] La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain, Barremian
  • †Mimamontsecia cretacea Szwedo & Ansorge, 2015
• †Mimaplax Jiang et al., 2019^[3] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
  • †Mimaplax ekrypsan Jiang et al., 2019
• †Mimaeurypterus Fu & Huang, 2021^[5] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
  • †Mimaeurypterus burmiticus Fu & Huang, 2021
• †Mimarachne Shcherbakov, 2007^[1] Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • †Mimarachne mikhailovi Shcherbakov, 2007

• †Multistria Zhang, Yao & Pang, 2021^[12] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
  • †Multistria orthotropa Zhang, Yao & Pang, 2021

• †Nipponoridium Szwedo, 2008^[14] Kuwajima Formation, Japan, Lower Cretaceous
  • †Nipponoridium matsuoi Fujiyama, 1978^[15] (Formerly Fulgoridium)
• †Saltissus Shcherbakov, 2007^[1]
  • †Saltissus eskovi Shcherbakov, 2007 Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • †Saltissus fennahi Luo, Liu & Jarzembowski, 2021^[16] Weald Clay, England, Barremian

Undescribed specimens are known from the Early Cretaceous Turga and Khetana localities of Russia, the Barremian-Aptian Khurilt locality of Mongolia, and the Turonian Kzyl-Zhar locality of Kazakhstan.