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General Catalogue of the Hemiptera 
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Poeciloptera [sic] opaca Schaum, Allgemeine Encyklopadie Ersch Pennsylvania 6 
und Gruber 51: 72. [Listed.] Equals Flata o[paca\ Say. New York 7 
Poeciloptera [sic] (?) opaca Walker, List of Homopterous Insects Maryland 8 
2: 469. [Listed.] 4 Equals Flata opaca Say. New Jersey 9 
Poeciloptera [sic] (?) opaca Walker, List of Homopterous Insects Georgia 10 
4: 1139. [Listed.] 2 Equals Flata opaca Say. Tennessee 11 
Poeciloptera [sic] (?) opaca Dohrn, Catalogus Hemipterorum New 
1859: 66. [Listed.] 6 Hampshire 12 
[Flata] opaca Say, Entomology of North America 2: 374. [n. sp., Ontario 13 
reprinted.] 1 - 2 :375. [Comparative note.] North 
[Flata] opaca Rathvon, Mombert’s History Lancaster County, Carolina 14 
Pennsylvania 1869: 550. [Listed.] 6 Canada 16 
Elidiptera opaca Glover, Manuscript Notes 1878: PI. 1, Fig. 49. Eastern 
[Listed, illustrated.] Equals Flata [opaca]. States 16 
Helicoptera opaca Uhler, Standard Natural History 2: 239. [De- South 
scribed.] 2 - 6 - 7 - 8 * 9 - 10 Carolina 17 
Helicoptera opaca Uhler, Riverside Natural History 2: 239. [De- British 
scribed.] 2 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 Columbia 18 
Helicoptera vestita Provancher, Petite Faune Entomologique du Mississippi 19 
Canada 3: 221. [n. sp.] 13 :220. [Key.] 
Helicoptera opaca Van Duzee, Psyche 5: 389. Equals Flata opaca Say. 
Helicoptera vestita Harrington, Ottawa Nat. 6: 31. [Listed.] 1 
H[elicoptera] opaca Van Duzee, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 5: 192. [Listed.] 7 
H[elicoptera] opaca Smith, Ann. Rept. New Jersey State Bd. Agr. Suppl. 27: 87. 
[Listed.] 9 
Flata opaca Melichar, Ann. Nat. Hofmus. Wien. 17: 230. [Listed.] 6 
Helicoptera opaca Swezey, Preliminary Catalogue of Fulgoridae of North America 
1904: 20. [Catalogued.] 1 - 2 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 12 Equals Flata opaca Say. 
Helicoptera vestita Swezey, Preliminary Catalogue of Fulgoridae of North America 
1904: 20. [Catalogued.] 13 
H[elicoptera] opaca Wirtner, Ann. Carnegie Mus. 3: 213. [Listed.] 6 
Helicoptera opaca Fletcher and Gibson, Ann. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ontario 38: 129. 
[Listed.] 13 
Helicoptera opaca Van Duzee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1907: 475. [Key.] 
:476. [Described.] 7 - 13 Equals Helicoptera vestita Prov. (?) :476, 477, 479. [Compara¬ 
tive notes.] 
Helicoptera pinorum Manee, Ent. News 21: 117. [n. sp.] 14 
E[lidiptera] opaca Smith, Ann. Rept. New Jersey State Mus. 1909: 95. [Listed.] 9 
Elidiptera opaca Van Duzee, Canadian Ent. 42: 262. [Catalogued.] 14 - 16 Equals 
[Elidiptera] pinorum Man. Equals [Elidiptera] vestita Prov. 
Elidiptera opaca Van Duzee, Trans. American Ent. Soc. 36 : 83. Equals Helicoptera 
pinorum Man. 
Elidiptera opaca Van Duzee, Canadian Ent. 44: 325. Equals Helicoptera vestita Prov. 
Elidiptera opaca Metcalf, Ann. Ent. Soc. America 6: 351; PI. XXXIII, Figs. 18, 19. 
[Wing venation, illustrated.] 
Elediptera [sic] opaca Metcalf, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Soc. 31: 45 (13). [Listed.] 14 
Elidiptera opaca Van Duzee, Check List of Hemiptera of America North of Mexico 
1916: 79. [Listed.] 16 - 16 Equals [Elidiptera] pinorum Man. Equals [Elidiptera] vestita 
Prov. 
Elidiptera opaca Van Duzee, Catalogue of Hemiptera of America North of Mexico 
1917: 727. [Catalogued.] 2 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 12 - 13 - 14 Equals Flata [opaca Say]. Equals Helicoptera 
[opaca Say]. Equals Helicoptera pinorum Man. Equals Helicoptera vestita Prov. 
[Epiptera] opaca Metcalf, Canadian Ent. 54: 263. [Notes.] 
Epiptera opaca Metcalf, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Soc. 38: 159; PI. 41, Fig. 49; PI. 43, 
Fig. 72; PI. 53, Fig. 265; PI. 64, Fig. 516. [Key, illustrated.] 
Epiptera opaca Van Duzee, Bull. Connecticut Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. 34: 29. [Key.] 
:30. [Notes.] 12 - 17 
Epiptera opaca Downes, Proc. Ent. Soc. British Columbia 1927: 21. [Listed.] 18 
