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Desudaba— Birdantis 
modesta Jacobi 
1928 Desudaba modesta Jacobi, Arkiv Zool. 19 (28) : 2. [n. sp. 1 
psittaca Walker 
1858 Desudaba psittacus [sic] Walker, List of Homopterous Insects. 
Supplement. 1858: 59. [n. sp.] 1 ' 2 
1863 M\etanira] thisbe Stal, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 24: 236. [n. sp.] 2 
1866 M\etanira] thisbe Stal, Berliner Ent. Zeit. 10 : 389. Equals Desu- 
daba psittacus [sic] Walk. 
1892 Dlesiidaba] psittacus [sic] Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1892: 
277. [Comparative note.] 
1906 Desudaba psittacus [sic] Kirkaldy, Bull. Hawaiian Sugar PI. Assoc. Div. Ent. 1 (9): 
390. [Key, listed.] 2 Equals Metanira thisbe Stal. 
1926 D[esudaba ] psittacus [sic] Tillyard, Insects of Australia and New Zealand 1926: 168. 
[Described.] 2 
1927 Desudaba psittacus [sic] Musgrave, Rec. Australian Mus. 16: 49. [Notes, food 
plants.] 2 - 3 Equals Metanira thisbe Stal. 
1928 Desudaba psittacus [sic] Jacobi, Arkiv Zool. 19 (28): 2. [Listed, comparative note.] 4 
scylla Distant 
1888 Desudaba scylla Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1888: 488; PI. New Guinea 1 
XIII, Fig. 5. [n. sp., illustrated.] 1 
1906 Desudaba scylla Kirkaldy, Bull. Hawaiian Sugar PI. Assoc. Div. Ent. 1 (9) : 390. 
[Key.] 
Western 
Australia 1 
Australia 1 
Queensland 2 
New South 
Wales 3 
Mt. 
Tambourine 4 
Genus BlRDANTIS Stal 
Logotype B\ iridanlts] decens 1906 Distant, Ann. Mag. Xat. Hist. (7) 
18: 26. 
Birdantis 1863 Stil, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3) 1: 581. [gen. n.] 
Birdanti [sic] 1863 Stal, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 24: 236. [Comparative note.] 
Birdantis 1866 Stal, Hemiptera Africana4: 135. [Key.] 
1870 Walker, Jour. Linnean Soc. Zool. 10: 100. [Catalogue of species from 
Netherlands Indies.] 
1873 Marschall, Nomenclator Zoologicus 1873: 355. [Listed.] 
1882 Scudder, Bull. United States Nat. Mus. 19: 39. [Listed.] 
1906 Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 18: 26. [Listed, comparative note.] 
1913 Kirkaldy, Bull. Hawaiian Sugar PI. Assoc. Div. Ent. 12: 11. [Notes.] 
1926 Schulze, Kiikenthal and Heider, Nomenclator Animalium 1 (3): 405. 
[Listed.] 
1939 Neave, Nomenclator Zoologicus 1: 431. [Listed.] 
collaris Walker 
1870 Polydiclya collaris Walker, Jour. Linnean Soc. Zool. 10: 98. fn. Morty 1 
sp.] 1 Halmahera 2 
1895 Polyd[ictya] collaris Gerstaecker, Mitth. Naturw. Ver. Greifswald 
27: 27. [Comparative note.] 1 
1900 Birdantis collaris Breddin, Abh. Scnckenbergischen Nat. Ges. 25: 193. [Notes. 1 ' 2 
Equals Polydiclya collaris Walk. 
1906 Birdantis collaris Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 18: 26. [Listed.] Equals {Bir- 
dantis] vitliventris Walk. fnom. nud.] Equals Polydiclya collaris Walk. 
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