Cretalepisma


Cretalepisma is an extinct genus of wingless insect belonging to family Lepismatidae in the order Zygentoma. It contains one species, Cretalepisma kachinicum. Cretalepisma is known from a single female specimen, preserved in Cretaceous aged Burmese amber. The specimen has a total body length of 9.7 millimeters, almost twice that of Burmalepisma.
The genus name Cretalepisma is derived from the Latin Creta as used in the name of the Cretaceous period, and from Lepisma. The species epithet kachinicum references Kachin, the northernmost state of Myanmar, where the Burmese amber mines are located.