| Identification | 
			
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							| Current: | species Metriophasma (Metriophasma) baculus (De Geer, 1773) |  
							| Historical: | Metriophasma baculus; holotype of species Metriophasma (Metriophasma) baculus (De Geer, 1773); cited by De Geer. 1773. Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire des Insectes. 3:1-696, 44 pls. |  | 
			
				| Specimen | 
			
				|  | Basis of record: preserved specimen Counts: Females 1
 Depository: NHRS, Stockholm
 Data source: not recorded
 Other: condition, lost; note, female
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				| Locality | 
			
				|  | Northern South America, Surinam; Modern (is included in map) | 
			
				| Collecting event | 
			
				|  | [no data recorded] | 
			
				| Images | 
			
				|  |  juv. (paratype), copyright NHRS, Stockholm 
  female (holotype) and nymph, from de Geer 1773 | 
			
				| Sounds | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
				| Ecological relationships | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
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