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Issue: Vol. 1717 No. 1: 3 Mar. 2008
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2008-03-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1717.1.6
Page range: 68
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Apocaligonellidus nom. nov. for Echinopsis Fan & Chen, 1996, preoccupied (Acari: Prostigmata: Raphignathoidea: Xenocaligonellididae)

Key Lab of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education; College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Fujian Entry-exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of China, 312 Hudong Road, Fuzhou 350001, China
Acari Prostigmata Raphignathoidea Xenocaligonellididae

Abstract

In 1996 we proposed the name Echinopsis for a monotypic new genus in the mite family Xenocaligonellididae (= Xenocaligonellidae) (Fan and Chen, 1996), without noticing that the same name had already been used for an echinodermatan genus (Agassiz 1840; Mortensen 1951). So a new name is required for that genus. Apocaligonellidus nom. nov. is hereby proposed as a replacement.

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