Family Medocostidae

Medocostes Štys, 1967c: 441 . Type species: Medocostes lestoni Štys, 1967 . Gender:masculine (original designation).Current status:Valid taxon (see e.g. KERZHNER 1989, SCHUH & SLATER 1995).

Medocostes carayoni Štys, 1967c:462 . Holotype: ♀, Democratic Republic of the Congo:ʻCongo, Mayidi (alt.approx. 600 m, situated between Léopoldville [= Kinshasa] 4.18 S., 15.18 E. and Thysville 5.16 S., 14.53 E. …)’ (MRAC). Current status: Junior subjective synonym of Medocostes lestoni Štys, 1967 (KERZHNER 1989: 150).

Medocostes lestoni Štys, 1967c: 457 . Holotype: ♀, Ghana: Tafo (6.15 N., 0.20 W.)’ (MNHN). Current status: Valid taxon (see KERZHNER 1989) (Fig. 9).

Medocostidae Štys, 1967c: 439 . Type genus: Medocostes Štys, 1967 . Current status:Valid taxon.Treated as subgroup of the Velocipedidae (KERZHNER 1971), as subfamily of Nabidae (CARAYON 1970; KERZHNER 1981, 1989), or recently as valid family (SCHUH & ŠTYS 1991, SCHUH & SLATER 1995, SCHUH et al. 2009, GOSSNER & DAMKEN 2018, YAMADA et al. 2018).