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

Elipsocidae Elipsocidae is a 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 species in more than ...

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

Benelux The Benelux Union ( nl, Benelux Unie; french: Union Benelux; lb, Benelux-Unioun), also known as simply Benelux, is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighboring states in western Europe: B ...

, 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,

oak An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ''L ...

and

sea buckthorn ''Hippophae'' is the genus of sea buckthorns, deciduous shrubs in the family Elaeagnaceae. The name sea buckthorn may be hyphenated to avoid confusion with the unrelated true buckthorns (''Rhamnus'', family Rhamnaceae). It is also referred to as ...

. 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 André Badonnel (5 July 1898 Épinal, Vosges -30 April 1991) was a French entomologist who specialised in Psocoptera. He wrote ''Faune de France. Psocoptères''. Paris. Paul Lechevalier 1943. His collection is in the Natural History Museum of Gen ...

in his ''Faune de France: 42, Pscocoptères'' (Fauna of France: 42, Psocoptera).

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