Gouxia

Gouxia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Pseudococcidae
Genus: Gouxia
Koçak & Kemal, 2009
Species: G. danielaferreroae
Binomial name
Gouxia danielaferreroae
(Goux, 1989)
Synonyms
  • Giraudia Goux, 1989
  • Giraudia danielaferreroae Goux, 1989

Gouxia danielaferreroae is a species of mealybug that lives in France. It was placed in a monotypic genus by Lucien Goux in 1989, but the genus name he used, Giraudia, was a junior homonym of at least two other animal genera. The genus was renamed Gouxia in his honour in 2009.[1]

References

  1. Koçak, A. Ö.; Kemal, M. (2009). "Gouxia nom. n., a replacement name of a genus group taxon in the order Hemiptera (Coccoidea, Pseudococcidae)". Miscellaneous Papers. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara. 149: 1.


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