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Data for specimen record

Identification
Current: species Lethaeus africanus Dallas, 1852
Historical: Lethaeus africanus; neotype of species Lethaeus africanus Dallas, 1852; cited by Scudder, G.G.E. 1967. Rhyparochrominae types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.). Bull. Brit. Mus. Entomol. 20:253-285
Specimen
Basis of record: preserved specimen
Counts: females 1
Depository: NHMUK, London
Data source: not recorded
Other: no data
Locality
West Tropical Africa, Sierre Leone: Njala; Modern (is included in map)
Collecting event
June 13, 1925; E. Hargreaves
Images      
Lethaeus africanus. Neotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Lethaeus africanus. Neotype- 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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