''Cretevania'' is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

Evaniidae Evaniidae is a family of parasitoid wasps also known as ensign wasps, nightshade wasps, hatchet wasps, or cockroach egg parasitoid wasps. They number around 20 extant genera containing over 400 described species, and are found all over the world e ...

, which lived in what is now China, Burma, England, Lebanon, Mongolia, Russia and Spain during the

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of th ...

period. the genus was described by Rasnitsyn in 1975, and the

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is ''Cretevania minor''.

Species

* ''Cretevania alcalai'' Peñalver et al.,

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* ''Cretevania alonsoi'' Peñalver et al., 2010 * ''Cretevania bechlyi'' Jennings, Krogmann & Mew,

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* ''Cretevania concordia'' Rasnitsyn, Jarzembowski & Ross,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

* ''Cretevania cyrtocerca'' (Deans, 2004) Peñalver et al., 2010 * ''Cretevania exquisita'' (Zhang, Rasnitsyn, Wang & Zhang,

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) Peñalver et al., 2010 * ''Cretevania major'' Rasnitsyn,

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

* ''Cretevania meridionalis'' Rasnitsyn,

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* ''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.,

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* ''Cretevania venae'' Li et al., 2018 * ''Cretevania vesca'' (Zhang et al., 2007) Peñalver et al., 2010

Phylogeny

Cladogram A cladogram (from Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an evolutionary tree because it does not show how ancestors are related to d ...

after Peñalver et al. (2010).

References

Evanioidea Fossil taxa described in 2010 Cretaceous insects of Asia Prehistoric insects of Europe Prehistoric Hymenoptera genera {{Cretaceous-insect-stub