Macrosiagon abyssinica Pic, 1909

Batelka, Jan, 2011, Contribution to the synonymies, distributions, and bionomics of the Old World species of Macrosiagon (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51 (2), pp. 587-626 : 589-590

Macrosiagon abyssinica Pic, 1909

Macrosiagon abyssinicus Pic, 1909: 148 . Type locality: Abyssinie, Erythrée [= Eritrea].

Type material examined. SYNTYPE: 1J ( MNHN – coll.Pic, box no. 6), ‘Sheleb / Erythrea / (Rolle) [Pic’s hw, almost illegible] // type [Pic’s hw] // type [p, red label] // M. abyssinicus / Pic [Pic’s hw]’.

Remarks. Orange; head, all extremities and basal and apical regions of elytra black. MT 2 slightly shortened but not flattened dorsally. Vertex compressed anteriorly, but rounded dorsally. Pronotal disc with one shallow impression on each side of the medial lobe. Elytra long and narrow, with slender apices. The species differs from all other Macrosiagon species by the compressed vertex and by impressions on pronotal disc.

Distribution. So far known only from the type specimen from Eritrea.