| Identification | 
			
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							| Current: | species Acanthocoris obscuricornis Dallas, 1852 |  
							| Historical: | Acanthocoris obscuricornis; syntype of species Acanthocoris obscuricornis Dallas, 1852; cited by Dallas. 1852. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. II:369-592 |  | 
			
				| Specimen | 
			
				|  | Basis of record: preserved specimen Counts: Males 1
 Depository: BMNH, London NH Mus.; catalog number 651938
 Data source: Bantock. 2011. Photographs taken at The Natural History Museum, London.
 Other: no data
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				| Locality | 
			
				|  | West Tropical Africa: Sierra Leone.; Modern (is included in map) | 
			
				| Collecting event | 
			
				|  | [no data recorded] | 
			
				| Images | 
			
				|  |  Acanthocoris obscuricornis Dallas, 1852 (Holotype: male) – BMNH London – (CC BY-NC 3.0) Attribution: The Natural History Museum, London.  Photograph taken by Tristan Bantock. 
  Acanthocoris obscuricornis Dallas, 1852 (Holotype: male) – BMNH London – (CC BY-NC 3.0) Attribution: The Natural History Museum, London.  Photograph taken by Tristan Bantock. 
  Acanthocoris obscuricornis Dallas, 1852 (Holotype: male) – BMNH London – (CC BY-NC 3.0) Attribution: The Natural History Museum, London. Photograph taken by Tristan Bantock. | 
			
				| Sounds | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
				| Ecological relationships | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
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