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General Catalogue of the Homoptera 
1870 Phromnia subguttata var. b St 11, Ofv. Svenska Vet. Akad. Forh. 
27: 771 [n. var.] 1 
1901 Flata subguttata Melichar, Ann. Nat. Hofmus. Wien 16: 205 
[Key] :211 [Comparative note] :213 [Described, catalogued ] 1 ’ 2 - 
3 ' 4 Equals Phromnia subguttata St&l 
1923 Phromnia subguttata Melichar, Gen. Insect. 182: 16 [Catalogued] 
i, 2 . 3, 4 Equals Phromnia [subguttata] var. b Stll 
1926 Flata subguttata Haupt, Philippine Jour. Sci. 29: 439 [Listed] 5 
Localities: ‘Philippines. 2 Luzon. 3 Mindoro. 4 Natuna. 5 Mindanao. 
superba Melichar 
1901 Flata superba Melichar, Ann. Nat. Hofmus. Wien 16: 206 [n. 
sp.] 1, 2 ' 3 :204 [Key] 
1910 Phromnia superba Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 5: 300 
[Listed, comparative notes] 2 ' 3 ’ *■ *• 6 Equals Plata superba Mel. 
1912 Phromnia superba Schmidt, Kev. Zool. Africaine 1: 360 [Notes] 
:361 [Key] :362 [Comparative note] 
1914 Phromnia superba Imms, Mem. Manchester Lit. Phil. Soc. 58 
(4) :3 [Mimicry] 6 
1923 Phromnia superba Melichar, Gen. Insect. 182: 15 [Catalogued] 2 ' 
3, 4 . 5 , 6 . 7 Equals Flata [superba] 
1929 Flata superba Lallemand, Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaine 17: 86 
[Listed] 4 
1954 Phromnia superba China, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (12) 7 : 150-152 
[Life history notes, color changes] 6 
1954 P[hromnia] superba Synave, Parc National de l’Upemba 32 
(2) :33; Fig. 1 [Key, illustrated] 8 
Localities: ‘West Africa. 2 Sierra Leone. 3 Cameroons. 4 Belgian Congo. 
5 Gold Coast. 6 Nigeria. 7 Africa. 8 Katanga. 
superba var — Distant 
1910 [Phromnia superba] var — Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 5: 
300 [n. var.] 1 ' 2> 3 ' *■ 6 ' 6 
Localities: 1 Belgian Congo . 2 Gold Coast . 3 Nigeria. 4 Ashanti. 5 Sierra Leone. 
6 Cameroons. 
tricolor White 
1846 Poeciloptera ( Flatida ) tricolor White, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 18: 
26 [n. sp.] 1 
1850 Poeciloptera tricolor Schaum, Allgemeine Encyklopiidie Ersch 
und Gruber 51: 72 [Listed] 1 
1851 Flata tricolor Walker, List of Homopterous Insects 2: 435 
[Catalogued] 1 Equals Poeciloptera ( Flatida ) tricolor White 
1859 [Flata] tricolor Dohm, Catalogus Hemipterorum 1859: 67 
[Listed] 1 
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SciELO 
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