| Identification | 
			
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							| Current: | species Germalus scutellatus (Distant, 1920) |  
							| Historical: | Neocypus scutellatus; syntype of species Germalus scutellatus (Distant, 1920); cited by Distant, W.L. 1920. Rhynchota from New Caledonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9(6):143-64 |  | 
			
				| Specimen | 
			
				|  | Basis of record: preserved specimen Counts: females 1
 Depository: NHMUK, London
 Data source: not recorded
 Other: no data
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				| Locality | 
			
				|  | Southwestern Pacific, New Caledonia: Central; Modern (is included in map) | 
			
				| Collecting event | 
			
				|  | November 28, 1914; P. D. Montague | 
			
				| Images | 
			
				|  |  Neocypus scutellatus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. 
  Neocypus scutellatus. Syntype- dorsal habitus. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. | 
			
				| Sounds | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
				| Ecological relationships | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
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