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Macrosiagon
Sign in to savethumb|Macrosiagon pectinata thumb|Macrosiagon limbata, female Macrosiagon is a genus of wedge-shaped beetles in the family Ripiphoridae. There are more than 20 described species in Macrosiagon. Under the rules of the ICZN, the nomenclatural gender of the genus name is feminine, as it is based on the Greek word "siagon" (σῐᾱγών), for "jaw", which is feminine in gender (), despite recent publications erroneously treating the gender as neuter (e.g. )
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 650
- With media
- 19
- Family
- Ripiphoridae
- Collections
- INHS, NMV, SAM, CLEMSON UNIVERSITY ARTHROPOD COLLECTION
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Costa Rica, South Africa, Mozambique
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Selected species
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Macrosiagon pectinata thumb|Macrosiagon limbata, female Macrosiagon is a genus of wedge-shaped beetles in the family Ripiphoridae. There are more than 20 described species in Macrosiagon. Under the rules of the ICZN, the nomenclatural gender of the genus name is feminine, as it is based on the Greek word "siagon" (σῐᾱγών), for "jaw", which is feminine in gender (), despite recent publications erroneously treating the gender as neuter (e.g. )
==Selected species== Macrosiagon acutipennis Pierce, 1904 Macrosiagon bifasciata (Marseul, 1877) Macrosiagon bifoveata Horn, 1875 Macrosiagon bimaculata (Fabricius, 1787) Macrosiagon bipunctata (Fabricius, 1801) Macrosiagon capito (Blackburn, 1899) Macrosiagon championi (Blackburn, 1899) Macrosiagon crassipes (Lea, 1917) Macrosiagon cruenta (Germar, 1824) Macrosiagon cucullata (W.J. Macleay, 1887) Macrosiagon cyanivestis Marseul, 1876 †Macrosiagon deuvei Batelka, Collomb & Nel, 2006 Macrosiagon difficilis (Blackburn, 1899) Macrosiagon dimidiata (Fabricius, 1781) Macrosiagon diversiceps (Blackburn, 1899) Macrosiagon elegans Marseul, 1876 Macrosiagon ebboi Perrichot, Nel & Néraudeau, 2004 Macrosiagon fernalda Rivnay, 1929 Macrosiagon ferruginea (Fabricius, 1775) Macrosiagon flavipennis (LeConte, 1866) Macrosiagon fortieri (Chobaut, 1893) Macrosiagon grombczewskii (Semenov, 1891) Macrosiagon interioris (Blackburn, 1899) Macrosiagon laeviceps (Lea, 1917) Macrosiagon limbata (Fabricius, 1792) Macrosiagon macleayi Csiki, 1913 Macrosiagon maculicollis (Boheman, 1858) Macrosiagon medvedevi Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1973 Macrosiagon meridionalis (Costa, 1859) Macrosiagon nasuta (Thunberg, 1784) Macrosiagon nigroapicalis (Lea, 1917) Macrosiagon novaehollandiae (Gerstaecker, 1855) Macrosiagon oberthurii (Fairmaire, 1879) Macrosiagon octomaculata (Gerstaecker, 1855) Macrosiagon pallidipennis (Reitter, 1898) Macrosiagon pectinata (Fabricius, 1775) Macrosiagon pictipennis (Lea, 1904) Macrosiagon praeusta (Gebler, 1830) Macrosiagon punctata (Fabricius, 1787) Macrosiagon punctulaticeps (Blackburn, 1899) Macrosiagon pusilla (Gerstaecker, 1855) Macrosiagon rufofasciata (Lea, 1917) Macrosiagon sayi (LeConte, 1858) Macrosiagon semipunctata (Lea, 1904) Macrosiagon setipennis (Lea, 1917) Macrosiagon sobrina (Waterhouse, 1883) Macrosiagon spinicollis (Fairmaire, 1893) Macrosiagon terminata (Laporte, 1840) Macrosiagon tricolor (Gerstaecker, 1855) Macrosiagon tricuspidata (Lepechin, 1774) Macrosiagon vittata (Erichson, 1847)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Macrosiagon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.