Macrosiagon Hentz 1830 (wedge shaped beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Ripiphoridae
Full reference: N. M. Hentz. 1830. Remarks on the use of the maxillae in coleopterous insects, with an account of two species of the family Telephoridae, and of three of the family Mordellidae, which ought to be the type of two distinct genera. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 3:458-463
Parent taxon: Macrosiagonini according to J. Batelka et al. 2006
See also Perrichot et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Melanosiagon, Metoecus
Subtaxa: Macrosiagon deuvei
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy (Eocene of France)
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