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Description: | This specimen is from William Hunter's collection. The specimens were utilised by Fabricius describing new species. The collection contains types from other contemporary entomologists such as Olivier and Drury.
An original label in the drawer reads *gigas* which must refer to this specimen but was not found next to it. *'Mantis' gigantea* Gmelin, 1789 is a synonym of *gigas* Drury, 1773. Reference to a specimen of *gigas* occurs in Laskey's (1813) account of the Hunterian Museum displays in Glasgow, which was shortly after it opened to the public. As this species occurs in the Lesser Antilles (West Indies) and Laskey gives it as Amboyna (East Indies) he may actually have been referring to a different specimen. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | ARTHINSECT : PHASMATODEA : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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