Mckenzieana, Meng & Xing, 2022

Meng, Shitao & Xing, Jichun, 2022, Replacement of names for two armoured scale genera (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha Diaspididae) due to homonymy, Zootaxa 5116 (2), pp. 299-300 : 299

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5116.2.7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6369196
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DB226A-FF81-FFDA-F0C5-097FFD7FFA73
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Mckenzieana
status	nom. nov.

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Genus Mckenzieana nom. n.

Helaspis McKenzie 1963: 34 View in CoL (Mandibulata: Hexapoda: Hemiptera View in CoL : Diaspididae View in CoL ) is preoccupied by Helaspis Imbrie 1959: 400 View in CoL (Brachiopoda: Strophomenata: Productida: Productellidae ).

Type species: Helaspis mexicana McKenzie, 1963: 34 View in CoL .

Remarks on nomenclatural change. McKenzie (1963) established the armoured scale genus Helaspis with the type species Helaspis mexicana McKenzie 1963 . The genus is a valid name in Hemiptera: Coccomorpha : Diaspididae , subfamily Aspidiotinae , tribe Aspidiotini ( Normark et al. 2019) . The genus includes only the type species, recorded from Mexico.

Unfortunately, the name Helaspis McKenzie 1963 is preoccupied by Helaspis Imbrie 1959 , a fossil marine brachiopod genus (Brachiopoda: Strophomenata: Productida: family Productellidae ) based on the type species Helaspis luma Imbrie 1959 . Thus, Helaspis McKenzie 1963 is a junior homonym of Helaspis Imbrie 1959 . According to Article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a new replacement name is proposed for Helaspis McKenzie 1963 : Mckenzieana nom. n.

Etymology. The replacement name for the genus is derived from the name H.L. McKenzie, the author of the armoured scale insect genus Helaspis ; gender feminine.