| Identification | 
			
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							| Current: | species Geocoris (Geocoris) paulus McAtee, 1914 |  
							| Historical: | Geocoris punctipes variety paulus; holotype of species Geocoris (Geocoris) paulus McAtee, 1914; cited by McAtee, W.L. 1914. Key to the nearctic genera & species of Geocorinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Proc. biol. Soc. Wash. |  | 
			
				| Specimen | 
			
				|  | Basis of record: not specified Counts: unknown 1
 Depository: NMNH
 Data source: not recorded
 Other: no data
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				| Locality | 
			
				|  | Southwestern U.S.A., California, Kern County; Modern (is included in map) | 
			
				| Collecting event | 
			
				|  | [no data recorded] | 
			
				| Images | 
			
				|  |  Geocoris punctipes paulus HOLOTYPE (NMNH) - (CC BY-NC 3.0) - Photo by Pablo M. Dellapé with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
  Geocoris punctipes paulus - Holotype Labels (NMNH) - (CC BY-NC 3.0) - Photo by Pablo M. Dellapé with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. | 
			
				| Sounds | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
				| Ecological relationships | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
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