†family Cretostylopidae Kathirithamby and Engel 2014 (twisted-winged parasite)

Insecta - Strepsiptera - Cretostylopidae

Full reference: J. Kathirithamby and M. S. Engel. 2014. A revised key to the living and fossil families of Strepsiptera, with the description of a new family, Cretostylopidae. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 87:385-388

Parent taxon: Strepsiptera according to M. S. Engel 2016

See also Kathirithamby and Engel 2014

Sister taxa: Eteostrepsiptera, Mengenilliformia, Mengenilloidea, Mengeoidea, Phthanoxenidae, Protoxenidae

Subtaxa: Cretostylops

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Type: Cretostylops

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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