Echinocups

Phylum:Arthropoda

Class:Insecta

Order:Coleoptera

Family:Ommatidae

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)

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]