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Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) neosmithi Faraji & Hoekstra, 2021, nom. nov.

Description

Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) neosmithi Faraji nom. nov.

Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) smithi Denmark & Evans, 2011

Denmark & Evans (2011) described a new species of Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) from the Bahamas named smithi. That name was preoccupied (Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) smithi (Schuster, 1957)) and according to Article 57 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999) a new name is proposed here.

Notes

Published as part of Faraji, Farid & Hoekstra, Paul H., 2021, Some new species records of the predatory mite family Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from The Netherlands, pp. 35-57 in Soil Organisms 93 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.25674/so93iss1pp35, http://zenodo.org/record/10724129

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phytoseiidae
Genus
Metaseiulus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Faraji & Hoekstra
Species
neosmithi
Taxonomic status
nom. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) neosmithi Faraji, 2021

References

  • Denmark, H. A. & G. A. Evans (2011): Phytoseiidae of North America and Hawaii (Acari: Mesostigmata). - Indira Publishing House, West Bloomfield, USA: 451 pp.
  • Schuster, R. O. (1957): A new species of Typhlodromus from California. - The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 33 (4): 203 - 205.