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General Catalogue of the Homoptera 
rufifascia Walker 
1851 Poeciloptera rufifascia Walker, List of Homopterous Insects 2: 
458 [n. sp.] 1 
1859 Poeciloptera rufifascia Dohrn, Catalogus Hemipterorum 1859: 
66 [Listed] 1 
1862 Ormenis [rufifascia] Stal, Ofv. Svenska Vet. Akad. Forh. 19: 
490 Equals P[oeciloptera] rufifascia Walk. 
1902 Ormenis rufifascia Melichar, Ann. Xat. Hofmus. Wien 17: 101 
[Described, catalogued] 1 Equals Poeciloptera rufifascia Walk. 
1909 Ormenis rufifascia Van Duzee, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Xat. Sci. 9: 193 
[Described] 1 
1914 Ormenis rufifascia Barber, Bull. American Mus. Xat. Hist. 33: 
528 [Listed] 1 
1916 Ormenis rufifascia Van Duzee, Check List of Hemiptera of 
America Xorth of Mexico 1916: 82 [Listed] 2 
1917 Ormenis rufifascia Van Duzee, Catalogue of Hemiptera of 
America Xorth of Mexico 1917: 754 [Catalogued] 1 Equals 
Poeciloptera [rufifascia Walk.] 
1921 Ormenis rufifascia Osborn, Florida Ent. 5: 17 [Listed] 1 
1923 Anormenis rufifascia Melichar, Gen. Insect. 182: 69 [Cata- 
logued] 1 ’ 4 Equals Poeciloptera [rufifascia Walk.] Equals Ormenis 
[rufifascia Walk.] 
1923 Ormenis rufifascia Metcalf, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 38: 
152; PI. 38, Fig. 10; PL 48, Fig. 142 [Key, illustrated] 3 
1928 Ormenis rufifascia Dozier, Tech. Bull. Mississippi Agr. Exp. 
Sta. 14: 112 [Key, note] 1 :1 14 [Described, food plants] 1 ’ 5 Equals 
Poeciloptera [rufifascia Walk.] 
1945 Ormenis (?) rufifascia Bruner, Scaramuzza and Otero, Bol. Est. 
Exp. Agron. 63: 57, 156 [Food plants] 6 ' 7 
1948 Ormenaria rufifascia Metcalf and Bruner, Ann. Ent. Soc. America 
41: 78; PI. I, Fig. 7; PI. V, Figs. 1, 4; PI. XIII, Figs. 7, 8 [De- 
scribed, food plants, illustrated, catalogued] 1 • 5 • 6 • 7 Equals 
Poekilloptera rufifascia Walk. Equals Ormenis rufifascia Mel. 
Equals Anormenis rufifascia Mel. 
Localities: ‘Florida. 2 Southern States. 2 Eastern United States. 4 Xorth 
America. 5 Georgia. 6 Cuba. 7 Isle of Pines. 
Genus Melormenoides Metcalf 
Orthotype Melormenis inconspicua 1954 Metcalf, American Mus. 
Nov. 1698: 12 
Melormenoides 1954 Metcalf, American Mus. Xov. 1698: 12 [gen. n.] 
