A new stick insect (Phasmatodea: Susumanioidea) from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Group of southern England

A new species of stick insect, Cretophasmomima traceyae sp. nov., is proposed based on a forewing preserved in the Lower Cretaceous Weald Clay Formation (Wealden Group) of Surrey, southern England, and attributed to the genus Cretophasmomima Kuzmina, 1985 of the subfamily Susumaniinae (order Phasmatodea: superfamily Susumanioidea). As the first record of the Susumaniioidea from the English Wealden, this new species establishes the presence of Susumaniioidea in northwest Europe during the Early Cretaceous and extends the global distribution of susumanioids (stem-group stick insects) to the Cretaceous of Europe.