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1916 E[pitemna] retracta Jacobi, Deutsche Ent. Zeit. 1915: 305 
Equals Epilemna cyanea Mel. 
1923 Epitemna retracta Melichar, Gen. Insect. 182:131 [Catalogued] 3 5 - 7 
Equals Epitemna pilifera Mel. Equals Epitemna cyanea Mel. 
Equals Flatoides retracta Walk. 
1952 E[pitemna] retracta Villiers, Init. Africaines 9: 240; Fig. 348 
[Described illustrated] 6 - 8 
Localities: “Sierra Leone. 2 Africa. 3 Cameroons. 4 Antilles [?]. 5 Gabon. 
6 Western Africa. 7 French Equatorial Africa. 8 Central Africa. 
retracta var. marginalis Melichar. See Epitemna despecta var. marginalis Melichar. 
speculifera Melichar. See Epitemna retracta Walker 
vitrinervis Schmidt 
1912 Epitemna vitrinervis Schmidt, Rev. Zool. Africaine 1: 359 [n. 
sp .] 1 
1923 Epitemna vitrinervis Melichar, Gen. Insect. 182: 132 [Cat- 
alogued] 2 
Localities: 1 Belgian Congo. 2 Gabon. 
Genus Mulvia Stal 
Logotype Ricania albizona 1916 Jacobi, Deutsche Ent. Zeit. 1915: 304 
Type Mulvia albizona 1923 Melichar, Gen. Insect. 182: 131 
1866 St§,l, Hemiptera Africana 4 : 225 [subg. n., key] 
1886 Atkinson, Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 55: 51 [Listed] 
1898 Melichar, Ann. Xat. Hofmus. Wien 13: 205 [Key] 
:243 [Described, catalogued, key to species] 
1907 Distant, Insecta Transvaaliensia 8: 202 [Notes, 
catalogued] 
1909 Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 4: 326 [Com- 
parative note] 
1910 Distant, Insecta Transvaaliensia 10: 247 [Listed] 
1912 Waterhouse, Index Zoologicus No. II 1912: 183 
[Listed] 
1916 Jacobi, Deutsche Ent. Zeit. 1915: 304 [Listed] 
1923 Melichar, Gen. Insect. 182: 131 [Described, 
catalogue of species, catalogued] :121 [Key] 
1932 Schulze, Kukenthal and Heider, Nomenclator 
Animalium 3 (16) :2152 [Catalogued] 
1940 Xeave, Nomenclator Zoologicus 3: 226 [Cat- 
alogued] 
albizona Spinola 
1839 Ricania albizona Spinola, Ann. Soc. Ent. France 8: 395 [n. sp.] 1 
:394 [Key] 
[Ricania] 
(Mulvia) 
Mulvia 
