62 
General Catalogue of the Homoptera 
1945 Fennah, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 95: 479 
[Described, catalogued] 
1945 Fennah, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 47: 142 [De¬ 
scribed, catalogued] :122 [Morphology of pretarsus] 
1945 Metcalf, Zoologica 30: 133 [Described, catalogued] 
costalis Muir 
1931 Alcestis costalis Muir, Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc. Brazil 
7: 475; PI. X, Fig. 11 [n. sp., illustrated] 1 - 2 :476 2 Amazonas 
[Comparative note] 
docilis Walker 
1858 Elidiptera docilis Walker, List of Homopterous TOo de 
Insects. Supplement. 1858: 71 [n. sp.] 1 Janeiro 
1910 Elidiptera (?) docilis Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 5: 
321 [Listed] 1 
1948 [Elidiptera] docilis Metcalf, General Catalogue of the Hemiptera 
4 (10): 43 [Catalogued] 1 
1950 Alcestis [docilis] Fennah, Bull. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 
1 (1): 24. Equals Elidiptera docilis Walk. 
fulgurans Melichar. See Alphesiboea fulgurans Melichar. 
granulata Melichar. See Alphesiboea granulata Melichar. 
iiistans Walker 
1858 Poeciloptera instans Walker, List of Homop- : Para 
terous Insects. Supplement. 1858: 119 [n. sp.] 1 
1862 [Alcestis instans] Stal, Ofv. Svenska Vet. Akad. Forh. 19: 489. 
Equals Poeciloptera instans Walk. 
1902 Poeciloptera instans Melichar, Ann. Nat. Hofmus. Wien. 17: 
226 [Described] 1 
longiceps Lethierry. See Dioxyomus longiceps Lethierry. 
lunata Fennah 
1944 A[lcestis] lunata [nom. nud.] Fennah, Proc. Ent. Trinidad 
Soc. Washington 46: 189; PI. 14, Fig. 7 [Mor¬ 
phology of wings, illustrated] :198; PI. 15, Fig. 14 
[Tracheation illustrated] 
1945 Alcestis lunata Fennah, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 47: 143; 
PI. 16, Figs. 21-23 [n. sp., illustrated] 1 
melichari Schmidt. See Alphesiboea melichari Schmidt. 
mendosa Melichar. See Alphesiboea mendosa Melichar. 
pallescens Stal 
1862 A[lcestis] pallescens Stal, Handl. Svenska Yet. 
Akad. 3 (6): 11 [n. sp.] 1 
1879 Alcestis pallescens Berg, An. Soc. Cient. Argen¬ 
tina 8: 209 [Notes] 1 
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