Fuscicupes Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †
Fuscicupes Hong & Wang, 1990 |
Species: | †F. parvus
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Binomial name | |
†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 from it by Kirejtshuk (2020) because of the poor preservation of the only known specimen and the lack of characteristics to assign it to a suborder or family of beetles. [3]