Echinocups

Echinocups is an extinct genus of ommatid beetle. It was created in 2020 to house three species originally assigned to Notocupes, E. denticollis,^[1] E. neli^[2] and E. ohmkuhnlei^[3] The genus name refers to the sharp spikes present on the elytra.^[4] 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.^[5]

Phylum:Arthropoda

Class:Insecta

Order:Coleoptera

Family:Ommatidae

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Echinocups Temporal range: Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
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)

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