| Identification | 
			
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							| Current: | species Melucha bicolor Distant, 1892 |  
							| Historical: | Melucha bicolor; holotype of species Melucha bicolor Distant, 1892; cited by Distant. 1892. Rhynchota Heteroptera (Part 105).  In Godman & Salvin [Ed.]. Biologia Centrali-Americana. 1:353–368 |  | 
			
				| Specimen | 
			
				|  | Basis of record: preserved specimen Counts: Males 1
 Depository: BMNH, London NH Mus.; catalog number 651451
 Data source: Webb, M.D. 2011. Specimens examined at BMNH, London.
 Other: preparation type, Pinned
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				| Locality | 
			
				|  | Central America, Guatemala, Solola: Volcán Santo Tomás as "Guatemala, Cerro Zunil" [latitude and longitude inferred]; N 14.710000, W 91.478900; 1219 to 1524 meters; Modern (is included in map) | 
			
				| Collecting event | 
			
				|  | [no data recorded] | 
			
				| Images | 
			
				|  |  (CC BY-NC 3.0) Attribution: The Natural History Museum, Photograph taken by Tristan Bantock. 
  (CC BY-NC 3.0) Attribution: The Natural History Museum, Photograph taken by Tristan Bantock. | 
			
				| Sounds | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
				| Ecological relationships | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
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