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Melecta LATREILLE (=Symmorpha Kuiuve). 
Histoire naturelle de fourmis .. ., p. 427, 1802. Three species. 
Type.—(Apis) Centris punctata (Faprictus), 1775. (By designation of 
Latreille, Considérations générales... des insectes, p. 439, 1810.) 
Nomada histrio Fabricius, 1775, considered type by Malaise, Ent. News, 
vol. 48, p. 152, 1937, who contended that Fabricius had designated it type 
by the manner of description. 
Tsogenotypie with Symmorpha. 
(Melectoides TaASCHENBERG) —Leiopodus F. Smiru. 
Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 27, p. 75, 1883. 
Type.—(Melectoides sener TASCHENBERG, 1883)—Leiopodus lacertinus F. 
SmituH, 1854. (Monobasiec and original designation. ) 
Isogenotypic with Leiopodus F. Smith through synonymy. 
Melectomimus LINSLEY. 
Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 82, p. 448, 1939. 
Type.—Melecta edwardsii CRESSON, 1878. (Monobasic and original designa- 
tion.) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Melecta Latreille. 
Melectomorpha LINSLEY. 
Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 32, p. 451, 1939. Four species. 
Type.—Melecta californica Cresson, 1878. (Original designation.) 
Proposed as a subgenus of Melecta Latreille. 
(Meliphila ScuHrottKy) =Melitoma LEPELETIER and SERVILLE. 
Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, vol. 7 (ser. 2, vol. 4), p. 810, 1902. 
Type.—(Meliphila ipomoeae Scurorrky, 1902)—Melitoma euglossoides 
LEPELETIER AND SERVILLE, 1828. (Monobasic and original designation.) 
Isogenotypic with Melitoma Lepeletier and Serville through synonymy. 
Melipona ILLIGER. 
Magazin fiir Insektenkunde, vol. 5, p. 157, 1805 [1806]. Two species. 
Type.—Apis favosa Fasrictus, 1798. (By designation of Latreille, Consi- 
dérations générales . . . des insectes, p. 489, 1810.) Melipona fulva Lepele- 
tier, 1841, designated by Blanchard, in Cuvier, Régne Animal [ed. 3], 
insectes, text vol. 2, p. 227; atlas pl. 129, fig. 7, [1849], was not originally 
included. 
Meliponorytes Tost [fossil]. 
Riv. Ital. Palaent, vol. 2, p. 852, 1896. Two species. 
Type.—Meliponorytes succini Tost, 1896. (Present designation. ) 
Meliponula CocKERELL. 
Rey. Zool. Bot. Africaines, vol. 26, pp. 47 and 56, 1934. Nine species. 
Type.—Melipona bocandei SpinoLa, 1851. (Original designation. ) 
Proposed as a Subgenus of Melipona Illiger. 
(Melissa F. SmirnH)=Mesoplia LEPELETIER. 
Catalogue of hymenopterous insects . . . British Museum, pt. 2, p. 279, 1854. 
Four species. 
Type.—Mesocheira azurea LEPELETIER and SERVILLE, 1825. (Present desig- 
nation. ) 
Isogenotypic with Mesoplia Lepeletier. 
Melissina CocKERELL. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 8, p. 670, 1911. 
Type.—Melissina viator CocKERELL, 1911. (Monobasic.) 
