Fuscicupes
| Fuscicupes Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Ommatidae |
| Genus: | †Fuscicupes Hong & Wang, 1990 |
| Species: | †F. parvus
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| †Fuscicupes parvus Hong & Wang, 1990
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Fuscicupes is an extinct genus of beetles from the Early Cretaceous of eastern China. It contains only one species, Fuscicupes parvus,[1] which was described from a single specimen from Tuanwang, Laiyang city in Shandong province, from the Aptian aged Laiyang Formation. Fuscicupes is included in the family Ommatidae by some authors,[2] but was excluded by Kirejtshuk (2020) because of the poor preservation of the only known specimen.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Ommatidae Species List Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 11 May 2012.
- ^ Yu, Yali; Liu, Zhenhua; Shih, Chungkun; Ren, Dong (2019). "Coleoptera – Beetles". In Ren, Dong; Shih, Chungkun; Gao, Taiping; Yao, Yunzhi; Wang, Yongjie (eds.). Rhythms of Insect Evolution: Evidence from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Northern China. Wiley. pp. 337–428. doi:10.1002/9781119427957.ch21. ISBN 9781119427988. S2CID 240797988.
- ^ Kirejtshuk, Alexander G. (2020-02-17). "Taxonomic Review of Fossil Coleopterous Families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea". Geosciences. 10 (2): 73. Bibcode:2020Geosc..10...73K. doi:10.3390/geosciences10020073. ISSN 2076-3263.