| Fuscicupes Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | † Fuscicupes Hong & Wang, 1990 [1] |
| 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 was originally classified in the subfamily Ommatinae of the family Cupedidae, now generally considered a separate family Ommatidae, [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] [4]
