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Extinct genus of beetles

Echinocups
Temporal range: Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Ommatidae
Genus: †Echinocups
Kirejtshuk and Jarzembowski, 2020
Species
  • †Echinocups denticollis (Jiang et al., 2020)
  • †Echinocups neli (Tihelka et al., 2019)
  • †Echinocups ohmkuhnlei (Jarzembowski et al., 2019)

Echinocups is an extinct genus of ommatid beetle. It was created in 2020 to house three species originally assigned to Notocupes, E. denticollis, E. neli and E. ohmkuhnlei The genus name refers to the sharp spikes present on the elytra. All three species are known from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. The status of Echinocups as a distinct genus was contested by Li et al. (2023), who considered the genus Echinocups to be a junior synonym of the genus Notocupes.

References

  1. Jiang, Zhuoyin; Li, Yingge; Song, Chengjun; Shi, Hongliang; Liu, Ye; Chen, Rui; Kong, Fanli (April 2020). "A new species of the genus Notocupes from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae)". Cretaceous Research. 108: 104335. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104335. ISSN 0195-6671.
  2. TIHELKA, ERIK; HUANG, DIYING; CAI, CHENYANG (2019-12-20). "New notocupedin beetle in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae)". Palaeoentomology. 2 (6): 570–575. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.6.5. ISSN 2624-2834.
  3. Jarzembowski, Edmund A.; Wang, Bo; Zheng, Daran (February 2020). "The first notocupedin beetle in mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Insecta: Coleoptera: Archostemata)". Cretaceous Research. 106: 104225. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104225. ISSN 0195-6671.
  4. A. G. Kirejtshuk and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2020. Appendix A. Taxonomic review of fossil coleopterous families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea. Geosciences 10:73
  5. Li, Y.-D.; Tihelka, E.; Newton, A. F.; Huang, D.-Y.; Cai, C.-Y. (2023). "New species of Notocupes (Coleoptera: Archostemata) from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou beds, with discussion on the generic circumscription". Palaeoentomology. 6 (4): 398–415. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.4.11.
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