Tribe Syndesini MacLeay 1819 (stag beetle)
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: Syndesinae according to P. G. Allsopp and P. Schoolmeesters 2026
Sister taxa: Ceruchini, Sinodendrini
Subtaxa: Syndesus
Type: Syndesus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll) (Miocene to Miocene of Dominican Republic)