A new replacement name in Rhagidiidae (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Eupodoidea)

About authors:

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

Filippo Ceccolini,

Natural History Museum, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Acknowledgments:

We are really grateful to Karl-Heinz Schmidt (Oderwitz, Germany) for the timely notification of the homonymy and for the useful advice. We also thank Andrei Tolstikov (Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia) who has allowed us to propose a new note to Acarina and, thus, immediately replace the previous name before it actually comes into use.

Annotation:

The recently proposed name Sigthoria Ceccolini and Cianferoni, 2021 (replacement for the rhagidiid genus name Thoria Zacharda, 1980 nec Stål, 1864) turned out to be preoccupied (junior homonym of Sigthoria Koenike, 1907) and it needs to be changed. The substitute name Thorrhagidia Cianferoni and Ceccolini nom.n. is proposed here, together with two updated new combinations (comb.n.). 
DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2022-30-1-99-100

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