Cuneopalpus
Genus of booklice
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Cuneopalpus is a genus of damp barklice in the family Elipsocidae. There is one described species in the genus, Cuneopalpus cyanops.[2][3][4] C. cyanops is found in Benelux, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Central Europe, northern Asia, and North America.[2][4][5] They are orange in color.[6] It feeds on hemlock, oak and sea buckthorn.[6]
| Cuneopalpus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Psocodea |
| Family: | Elipsocidae |
| Genus: | Cuneopalpus Badonnel, 1943 |
| Species: | C. cyanops |
| Binomial name | |
| Cuneopalpus cyanops (Rostock, 1876) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Eclipsocus cyanops Rostock, 1876 | |
It was first formally described as Eclipsocus cyanops in 1876,[7] but moved to the newly erected genus Cuneopalpus in 1943 by French entomologist André Badonnel in his Faune de France: 42, Pscocoptères (Fauna of France: 42, Psocoptera).[8][1]