Medocostidae Stys 1967
- Dataset
- In memoriam of Professor Pavel Štys (1933 - 2018): biography, memories, bibliography and list of described taxa
- Rank
- FAMILY
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Medocostidae
discussion
Medocostes Štys, 1967 c: 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, 1967 c: 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, 1967 c: 457. Holotype: ♀, Ghana: Tafo (6.15 N., 0.20 W.) ’ (MNHN). Current status: Valid taxon (see KERZHNER 1989) (Fig. 9). Medocostidae Štys, 1967 c: 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).
Name
- Homonyms
- Medocostidae Stys 1967