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]
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Genus: | Gouxia Koçak & Kemal, 2009
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Species: | G. danielaferreroae
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Gouxia danielaferreroae (Goux, 1989)
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References
edit- ^ 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. 149. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara: 1.