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

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