Megistogaster costatus Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 332

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1

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scientific name

Megistogaster costatus Rondani, 1875
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Megistogaster costatus Rondani, 1875 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 423.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo) , Provincia Sarawak [ Bona Fortuna Island , Sarawak Province, Borneo]” ( Rondani 1875c: 421) .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (dirty, missing all legs except left hind-leg) ( MSNG): Sarawak / Typus / costatus Rond. / Megitogaster costatus n° 8.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Doleschalla parallela (Walker, 1862) ( Crosskey 1977: 608) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 423) described Megistogaster costatus , without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Guiglia (1957: 195) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 56) reported the holotype in the MSNG.

MSNG

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 'Giacomo Doria'

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Megistogaster

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Megistogaster

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Doleschalla

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Megistogaster

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