Syndesus MacLeay 1819 (stag beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Lucanidae
Full reference: W. S. MacLeay. 1819. Horae entomologicae: or essays on the annulose animals. Vol. I. Part I. Containing general observations on the geography, manners, and natural affinities of the insects which compose the genus Scarabaeus of Linnaeus; to which are added a few incidental remarks on the genera Lucanus and Hister of the same author. With an appendix and plates. 1-160
Parent taxon: Syndesini according to P. G. Allsopp and P. Schoolmeesters 2026
See also Woodruff 2009
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Syndesus ambericus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll) (Miocene to Miocene of Dominican Republic)
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