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Issue: Vol. 4985 No. 4: 16 Jun. 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-06-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4985.4.12
Page range: 595–597
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Revised taxonomic status of Scythia Kiritchenko, 1938 and Mohelnia Šulc, 1941 (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae: Eriopeltinae)

Guizhou University; Guiyang, 550025 P. R. China
Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University; Guiyang, 550025 P. R. China
Hemiptera Coccomorpha Coccidae Eriopeltinae

Abstract

The soft scale insect genus Scythia (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) was established by Kiritchenko (1938) with the type species Scythia craniumequinum Kiritchenko, 1938 from Ukraine. Later, Borchsenius (1957) placed Mohelnia Šulc, 1941 (type species: Mohelnia festuceti Šulc, 1941) as a junior subjective synonym of Scythia Kiritchenko, 1938, and proposed new combination: Scythia festuceti (Šulc, 1941). Ben-Dov (1993) followed Borchsenius (1957) in treating Mohelnia as a junior synonym of Scythia.

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