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RIPIPHORINAE

Peck, Stewart B., Thomas, Michael C. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2014, The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, and Petite-Terre), Lesser Antilles, Insecta Mundi 2014 (352), pp. 1-156 : 78

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 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5178825

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scientific name

 RIPIPHORINAE
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SUBFAMILY RIPIPHORINAE

TRIBE MACROSIAGONINI

Macrosiagon discicolle (Gerstaecker) 1855: 32 ( Rhipiphorus ); Blackwelder 1944-1957: 480; Vaurie 1955b: 15. = Emenadia vitraci Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 432 of Guadeloupe; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 480. Distribution. Cuba, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico. Mexico View in CoL to Brazil; widespread Antilles and Latin America View in CoL .

Macrosiagon octomaculatum (Gerstaecker) 1855: 22 ( Rhipiphorus ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 432 ( Emenadia ); Champion 1896: 51; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 480; Spilman 1971: 9; Bennett and Alam 1985: 27. Distribution. Barbados, Dominica, Guadeloupe, St. Vincent. USA, Central America View in CoL , South America View in CoL ; Lesser Antilles and Latin America View in CoL . Notes. Adults collected by beating vegetation; larvae probably hypermetamorphic and parasitic on larvae of wasps ( Bembicidae , Tiphiidae View in CoL , and Scoliidae View in CoL ).

Bennett, F. D., and M. M. Alam. 1985. An annotated checklist of the insects and allied terrestrial arthropods of Barbados. Carribbean Agriculture Research and Development Institute (CARDI). Bridgetown, Barbados. 81 p.

Fleutiaux, E., and A. Salle. 1890 [1889]. Liste des Coleopteres de la Guadeloupe et descriptions d'especes nouvelles. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (series 6) 9: 351 - 484.

Spilman, T. J. 1971. Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian biological survey of Dominica; Bostrichidae, Inopeplidae, Lagriidae, Lyctidae, Lymexylonidae, Melandryidae, Monommidae, Rhipiceridae and Rhipiphoridae (Coleoptera). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 70: 1 - 10.

Vaurie, P. 1955 b. A review of the genus Macrosiagon in Mexico, with notes on Rhipiphorus (Coleoptera, Rhipiphoridae). American Museum Novitates 1717: 1 - 19.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Ripiphoridae

Specimens