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Macrosiagon? - Macrosiagon pectinata - male

Macrosiagon? - Macrosiagon pectinata - Male
Huachuca Mountains, Miller Canyon, Coronado Nat Forest, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
August 4, 2007
Size: .8cm

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Macrosiagon? - Macrosiagon pectinata - male Macrosiagon? - Macrosiagon pectinata - male

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Macrosiagon pectinata (Fabricius 1775)
This is a much more typical color variant of M. pectinata than photo 202336. Macrosiagon fernalda is known from a fairly small area in southern California centered around Palm Springs- it may get into far western Arizona, but not this location. Besides, M. fernalda has fairly consistent coloration with the elytra entirely reddish-yellow, among other differences.

If any of you bugguiders out there have the ability to pop a ripiphorid (any ripiphorid!) in 95% ethanol after photographing it, I'd be mighty interested! I'd love to have enough material to start doing some genetic work on these guys to better define the species boundaries...

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