''Echinocups'' is an extinct genus of ommatid beetle. It was created in 2020 to house three species originally assigned to ''

Notocupes ''Notocupes'' is an extinct genus of medium-sized archostematan beetles from the Mesozoic Era of Eurasia, including over 50 described species. Historically, the genus was classified as a member of the family Ommatidae, but the presence of charact ...

'', ''E. denticollis'', ''E. neli'' and ''E. ohmkuhnlei'' The genus name refers to the sharp spikes present on the

elytra An elytron (; ; : elytra, ) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometime ...

. All three species are known from the

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age (geology), age of the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch or the lowest stage (stratigraphy), stage of the Upper Cretace ...

aged

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. Th ...

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 In taxonomy, the scientific classification of living organisms, a synonym is an alternative scientific name for the accepted scientific name of a taxon. The botanical and zoological codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. ...

of the genus ''Notocupes''.

References

Burmese amber Ommatidae Fossil taxa described in 2020 Fossil beetle genera {{paleo-beetle-stub