''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
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, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Scandinavia
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, the United Kingdom, Central Europe
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, northern Asia, and North America.[ They are orange in color.][ It feeds on hemlock, ]oak
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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 a ...
.[
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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References
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Elipsocidae
Psocoptera genera
Psocoptera of Europe