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Cretabythus
Taxonomy
Cretabythus was named by Evans (1973). It is the type genus of Cretabythinae.
It was assigned to Bethylidae by Rasnitsyn (1988); to Scolebythidae by Evans (1973) and Carpenter (1992); to Holopsenellinae by Engel et al. (2016), Azevedo et al. (2018) and Colombo et al. (2020); and to Cretabythinae by Brazidec et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Bethylidae by Rasnitsyn (1988); to Scolebythidae by Evans (1973) and Carpenter (1992); to Holopsenellinae by Engel et al. (2016), Azevedo et al. (2018) and Colombo et al. (2020); and to Cretabythinae by Brazidec et al. (2023).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1973 | Cretabythus Evans p. 171 |
| 1988 | Cretabythus Rasnitsyn |
| 1992 | Cretabythus Carpenter |
| 2016 | Cretabythus Engel et al. p. 6 |
| 2018 | Cretabythus Azevedo et al. p. 262 |
| 2020 | Cretabythus Colombo et al. |
| 2023 | Cretabythus Brazidec et al. p. 347 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available