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species Graptostethus grandis Distant, 1901

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• Distribution:
  •  South & Western Africa; Congo; Ethiopia; Nyasaland; Somalia; Ruanda; Uganda (Slater 1964)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (7):
  • Distant, W.L. 1901. The Annals and magazine of natural history 7 7(42):537, 538 >> Graptostethus grandis    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486668
  • Distant, W.L. 1918. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(2):173-9,257-70,416-24,486-92 >> Note: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9): 2: 424 || (des. nt.) >> Graptostethus grandis
  • Hesse. 1925. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 23:1-178 >> Note: Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 23: 66 || (des. nt.) >> Graptostethus grandis
  • Mancini, C. 1953. Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova. 66:166-204 >> Note: Ann. Mus. Storia. Nat. Civ. Gen. 66: 188. >> Graptostethus grandis
  • Schouteden, H. 1957. Ann. Mus. Congo belge. 8(58):247-268 >> Note: Ann. Mus. Roy. Congo. Belg. (8): 58: 258. >> Graptostethus grandis
  • Lepelley. 1960. Agricultural insects of East Africa. Nairobi, Kenya: East Africa High Commission 307 pp. >> Note: Agr. Ins. E. Afr., p. 50 || (fp.) >> Graptostethus grandis
  • Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 52 >> Graptostethus grandis
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, South Tropical Africa, Malawi, Nyasaland, Fort Johnson
  • Kind of type:  unspecified primary type
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  NHMUK London

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