Cyllonium [SEP] parent taxon
Cyllonium
Cyllonium is a genus of extinct insects. It contains two species.
Discovery.
Both species of "Cyllonium" were first described by the English entomologist John Obadiah Westwood. The fossils were recovered from the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian age) of the Lower Purbeck formation, Durdlestone Bay, England.
Taxonomy.
Very little is known of the two fossils as they were published without description. Illustrations, however, were provided, but even these show that the fossils were fragmentary. They were originally identified to
from Lepidoptera Superorder Amphiesmenoptera.
Excluded from Lepidoptera Superorder Amphiesmenoptera Family †Eocoronidae.
- †"Eocorona"
- †"Eocorona iani" (Queensland, Mid-Triassic)
Excluded from Lepidoptera Order Hemiptera.
Excluded from Lepidoptera Order Hemiptera Family †Palaeontinidae (?).
- †"Cyllonium"
- †"Cyllonium boidusvalianum"
- †"Cyllonium hewitsonianum"
Excluded from Lepidoptera Order Mecoptera (?).
Excluded from Lepidoptera Order Mecoptera (?) Family †Permochoristidae.
- †"Eoses"
- †"Eoses triassica" , disputed to be a synonym of †"Mesochorista proavita" in the Mecoptera