Cratovitisma Bechly, 2007 (Blattaria: Umenocoleidae) recorded in Lebanese and Myanmar ambers

Abstract

Cratovitisma odlreadi Bechly, 2007-a beetle-like cockroach, known from single Lower Cretaceous sediment specimen from Crato in Brazil, was designated by monotypy. C. cortexi Sendi, sp.n. (Lebanon) and C. bechlyi Podstrelená, sp.n. (Myanmar) from Early and Late Cretaceous amber respectively reflect a specific bark niche with unique disruptive camouflage coloration and minimum morphological differences over the significant temporal (130-120-98 Ma) and spatial (Laurasia-Gondwana) gaps. The earliest derivation within the family is documented with significantly symplesiomorphic (with Jantaropterix Vršanský, 2003) fully carinated legs.

Discovery of Lebambromyia in Myanmar Cretaceous Amber: Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Implications (Insecta, Diptera, Phoroidea)

“…Lebanese amber significantly differs from younger deposits, while French and Myanmar ambers, which are of similar age, also share several common elements [33]. Nevertheless, Lebanese and Myanmar ambers still have a few taxa in common despite the chronological and paleogeographic differences, such as the beetle-like cockroach Cratovitisma Bechly, 2007, the mantis Burmantis Grimaldi, 2003 and the phylogenetically enigmatic fly family Chimeromyiidae [6,34,35].…”

Earliest behavioral mimicry and possible food begging in a Mesozoic alienopterid pollinator

“…Cockroaches are also one of the most numerous Mesozoic fossil insects with about 30,000 collected specimens (Vršanský 2009) and 1,500 species extending from the Early Triassic to the Late Cretaceous (Cifuentes et al 2006;Vršanský 2009). Cockroaches from burmite show great diversity with predators, mimicking, camouflaged, standard, aposematic, parasitic, virus infected, holoptic-eyed, bipectinate antennate and aquatic specimens (Vršanský and Bechly 2015;Bai et al 2016Bai et al , 2018Poinar and Brown 2017;Vršanský and Wang 2017;Vršanský et al , 2018aVršanský et al , 2019aŠmídová and Lei 2017;Sendi and Azar 2017;Dmitriev et al 2018;Podstrelená and Sendi 2018;Kočárek 2018a, b;Li and Huang 2018;Qiu et al 2019a, b;Hinkelman 2019). Out of 11 alienopterid genera known, six of them are from Burmite: Alienopterus (Bai et al, 2016), Alienopterix (Mlynský et al, 2018), Aethiocarenus (Poinar et Brown, 2017), Caputoraptor (Bai et al, 2018), Alienopterella (Kočárek, 2018a), Teyia (Vršanský, Mlynský et Wang, 2018), Meilia (Vršanský et Wang, 2018), Vcelesvab (Vršanský, Barna et Bigalk, 2018), Apiblatta (Barna et Bigalk, 2018), Grant (Aristov, 2018), Chimaeroblattina (Barna, 2018) and an undescribed genus from Orapa in Botswana (McKay 2007).…”

Living cockroach genusAnaplectadiscovered in Chiapas amber (Blattaria: Ectobiidae:Anaplecta vegasp.n.)

“…There are several works concerning cockroaches and termites preserved in Mesozoic ambers written by Grimaldi & Ross (2004), Vršanský (2004), Vršanský et al (2018a), Vršanský et al (2018b), Vršanský (2009), Vršanský (2010), Anisyutkin & Gorochov (2008), Poinar Jr (2009), Vršanský et al (2011), Vršanský et al (2013a), Vršanský et al (2013b), Vršanský et al (2014), Vršanský et al (2018a), Vršanský et al (2018b), Vršanský et al (2018c), Vršanský et al (2019a), Vršanský et al. (2019b), Vršanský & Bechly (2015), Bai et al (2016), Bai et al (2018), Poinar Jr & Brown (2017), Sendi & Azar (2017), Šmídová & Lei (2017), Vršanský & Wang (2017), Kočárek (2018a), Kočárek (2018b), Li & Huang (2018), Mlynský, Wu, & Koubová (2019) and Podstrelená & Sendi (2018), Sidorchuk & Khaustov (2018), Qiu, Wang, & Che (2019a) and Qiu, Wang, & Che (2019b). In total, we know 11 families recorded in Mesozoic ambers out of which 3 are still living.…”