| Identification | 
			
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							| Current: | species Germalus palauensis Barber, 1958 |  
							| Historical: | Germalus palauensis; holotype of species Germalus palauensis Barber, 1958; cited by Barber, H.G. 1958. Insects of Micronesia Heteroptera: Lygaeidae. Insects Micronesia (B.P. Bishop Mus.). 7(4):173-218 |  | 
			
				| Specimen | 
			
				|  | Basis of record: preserved specimen Counts: females 1
 Depository: NMNH
 Data source: not recorded
 Other: no data
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				| Locality | 
			
				|  | Northwestern Pacific, Caroline Is., Palau: Babelthuap, Ngaremeskang; 30 meters; Modern (is included in map) | 
			
				| Collecting event | 
			
				|  | December 21, 1952; J. L. Gressitt | 
			
				| Images | 
			
				|  |  Germalus palauensis 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. 
  Germalus palauensis - 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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