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

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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[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.