Gouxia
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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.
Mealybug
Mealybugs are insects in the family Pseudococcidae, unarmored scale insects found in moist, warm climates. They are considered pests as they feed on plant juices of greenhouse plants, house plants and subtropical trees and also acts as a vector for several plant diseases.-Distribution:Mealybugs...
that lives in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. It was placed in a monotypic genus by Lucien Goux in 1989, but the genus name he used, Giraudia
Giraudia
Giraudia may refer to any of several biological genera:* Giraudia – Giraudia Förster, 1868, a genus of a ichneumon wasps in the subfamily Gelinae within Ichneumonidae...
, was a junior homonym of at least two other animal genera. The genus was renamed Gouxia in his honour in 2009.