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Meruacesa

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Meruacesa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Eulophidae
Subfamily: Eulophinae
Genus: Meruacesa
Koçak and Kemal , 2009
Type species
Meruacesa elegans
(Delucchi, 1962)
Species
Synonyms
  • Meruana Delucchi, 1962

Meruacesa is a genus in the family Eulophidae. It was formerly known as Meruana but this is now considered a junior homonym, due to the name being preoccupied by an East African genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ahmet Ömer Koçak; Muhabbet Kemal (2009). "Nomenclatural notes on some generic names of the superfamily Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)". Miscellaneous Papers Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara. 150.
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