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					Identification | 
			
			
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							| Current:  | 
							species Mecostibus minor (Bruner, 1910) | 
						 
						
							| Historical:  | 
							Lentula minor; holotype of species Mecostibus minor (Bruner, 1910); cited by Bruner, L. 1910. Acridoidea from Madagascar, Comoro Islands and Eastern Africa. Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903-1905: mit Mitteln der Hermann und Elise geb. Heckmann Wentzel-Stiftung: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. 2:623-644 | 
						 
					 
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				| Specimen | 
			
			
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				Basis of record: not specified Counts: females 1 Depository: MfN Data source: not recorded Other: no data | 
			
			
				| Locality | 
			
			
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				East Tropical Africa, Kenya: Patta Island [Pate Island]; S 2.110564, E 41.061367; Modern (is included in map) | 
			
			
				| Collecting event | 
			
			
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				February 16, 1903; Voeltzkow | 
			
			
				| Images      
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				  female, lateral view (holotype)
   female, dorsal view (holotype)
   female, frontal view (holotype)
   labels (holotype) | 
			
			
				| Sounds      
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				None | 
			
			
				| Ecological relationships      
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				None | 
			
			
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