''Cuneopalpus'' is a genus of damp barklice in the family

Elipsocidae Elipsocidae is a Family (biology), family of Psocodea (formerly Psocoptera) belonging to the infraorder Homilopsocidea. Members of the family have a free areola postica. Many species are apterous (without wings). The family includes about 130 spe ...

. There is one described species in the genus, ''Cuneopalpus cyanops''. ''C. cyanops'' is found in

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, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Ireland,

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, the United Kingdom,

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, northern Asia, and North America. They are orange in color. It feeds on hemlock,

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and

sea buckthorn ''Hippophae'', from Ancient Greek ἵππος (''híppos''), meaning "horse", and φάος (''pháos''), meaning "light", is a genus of flowering plants in the family Elaeagnaceae. They are deciduous shrubs. They are exceptionally hardy plants, ...

. It was first formally described as '' Eclipsocus cyanops'' in 1876, 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).

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