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							| Current:  | 
							species Plinachtus pungens (Thunberg, 1783) | 
						 
						
							| Historical:  | 
							Gonocerus luridus; syntype of synonym Gonocerus luridus Dallas, 1852; cited by Dallas. 1852. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. II:369-592 | 
						 
					 
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				| Specimen | 
			
			
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				Basis of record: preserved specimen Counts: Females 1 Depository: BMNH, London NH Mus.; catalog number 884105 Data source: Bantock. 2011. Specimens examined at The Natural History Museum, London.  Other: no data | 
			
			
				| Locality | 
			
			
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				Southern Africa; Modern (is included in map) | 
			
			
				| Collecting event | 
			
			
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				[no data recorded] | 
			
			
				| Images      
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				  Gonocerus luridus Dallas, 1852 (Syntype: female) – BMNH London – © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London. Photograph taken by Tristan Bantock. 
   Gonocerus luridus Dallas, 1852 (Syntype: female) – BMNH London – © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London. Photograph taken by Tristan Bantock. 
   Gonocerus luridus Dallas, 1852 (Syntype: female) – BMNH London – © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London. Photograph taken by Tristan Bantock.  | 
			
			
				| Sounds      
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				None | 
			
			
				| Ecological relationships      
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				None | 
			
			
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