A REPLACEMENT NAME FOR THORIA ZACHARDA (ACARIFORMES: PROSTIGMATA: EUPODOIDEA)

Journal:

2021. 29 (2)

Publicatione: 
A REPLACEMENT NAME FOR THORIA ZACHARDA (ACARIFORMES: PROSTIGMATA: EUPODOIDEA)



About authors:

Filippo Ceccolini,

Natural History Museum, University of Florence, Florence, Italy


Fabio Cianferoni,

Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy; Natural History Museum, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
e-mail: fabio.cianferoni@cnr.it


Acknowledgments:

We are grateful to Andrei Tolstikov (Tyumen State University, Russia) and to two anonymous reviewers for their helpful recommendations. We kindly thank Surajit Sur (Department of Zoology, Muralidhar Girls’ College, Kolkata, India) and Samiran Chakrabarti (Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar College, Kolkata, India) for providing literature.

Annotation:

A genus name of Trombidiformes Prostigmata turned out to be a junior homonym (preoccupied by an insect name) and a replacement name is proposed: Sigthoria nom. n. pro Thoria Zacharda, 1980 nec Stål, 1864. Two new combinations (comb. n.) are provided.

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