Cretoscraptella Alekseev, Háva & Bukejs, 2025

Genus Cretoscraptella Alekseev, Háva & Bukejs gen. nov.

Type species: Cretoscraptella crucifera sp. nov., designated herein

Diagnosis. Cretoscraptella gen. nov. can be distinguished from all other described Allopodini genera of Recent ( Allopoda LeConte, 1866 ; Pectotoma Hatch, 1965 ; and Pseudoscraptia Wollaston, 1868 ) by the following characters: distinctly smaller body size, narrow temples (in contrast to eye attaining posterior margin of head in Allopoda and eye separated by nearly the width of one eye from posterior margin of head in Pectotoma ), comparatively short elytra (in contrast to elytra narrow and long, twice or more as long as wide in Pectotoma , Allopoda or Pseudoscraptia ), filiform antennae (flabellate in male of Pectotoma ), and not shortened last metatarsomere (in contrast to shortened last metatarsomere in Pseudoscraptia ).

Among extinct genera of Scraptiidae , the new genus can be distinguished by smaller body size, 1.5 mm ( Scraptiomima is 2.5–8.6 mm long, Palaeoscraptia is 2.0 mm long, Archescraptia is 4.3 mm long) and absence of lobed sements in metatarsi. Cretoscraptella gen. nov. differs from Scraptiomima in filiform antennae with elongate anennomeres (short, almost moniliform antenna with transverse antennomeres in Scraptiomima ), in comparatively shorter tarsi and shorter tibial spurs.

Derivatio nominis. The name of the new genus is a compound word and combines the Creto- (referring to the Cretaceous age of the deposit), Scraptia (name of the type genus in the subfamily) and the Latin diminutive suffixella (referring to the small size of the fossil). Gender feminine.

Remarks. The new genus is monotypic, represented by the type species only. Therefore the generic description considerably overlaps that of the species.