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Megotoessa insulana Karsch, 1889

CollectionObject 1500714; 8e224ad7-26df-410c-ad88-0484a6231b55: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500714; 8e224ad7-26df-410c-ad88-0484a6231b55: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500714; 8e224ad7-26df-410c-ad88-0484a6231b55: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500714; 8e224ad7-26df-410c-ad88-0484a6231b55: female head and pronotum, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500714; 8e224ad7-26df-410c-ad88-0484a6231b55: female ovipositor (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500714; 8e224ad7-26df-410c-ad88-0484a6231b55: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (4)

  • Megotoessa insulana Karsch, 1889: 461.

    Holotype; female; 8e224ad7-26df-410c-ad88-0484a6231b55; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Madagascar: south central

  • Megotoessa insulana Karsch, 1889 in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891: 120.
  • Megotoessa insulana Karsch, 1889 in Kirby, 1906: 447.
  • Megotoessa insulana Karsch, 1889 in Heller, Hemp, Massa, Kociński & Warchalowska-Sliwa, 2018: 145, 146.

References (4)

  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1891) Additamenta zur Monographie der Phaneropteriden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 41, 1–196. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49919#page/141/mode/1up
  • Heller, K.-G., Hemp, C., Massa, B., Kociński, M. & Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (2018) Paraplangia sinespeculo, a new genus and species of bush-cricket, with notes on its biology and a key to the genera of Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea) from Madagascar. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 27(2), 143–153. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=24243
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1889) Orthopterologische Beiträge III. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 32, 415–464. [1888] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34458#page/475/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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