| Fuscicupes Temporal range: Aptian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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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 |
| Binomial name | |
| †Fuscicupes parvus Hong & Wang, 1990 | |
Fuscicupes is an extinct genus of beetles from the Early Cretaceous of eastern China. It contains only one species, Fuscicupes parvus, 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, 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.
References
- 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.
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| Fuscicupes parvus | |
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