Gouxia

Gouxia danielaferreroae is a species of mealybug that lives in France. It was placed in a monotypic genus by Lucien Goux in 1989, but the genus name he used, Giraudia, was a junior homonym of at least two other animal genera. The genus was renamed Gouxia in his honour in 2009.^[1]

Gouxia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily:	Coccoidea
Family:	Pseudococcidae
Genus:	Gouxia Koçak & Kemal, 2009
Species:	G. danielaferreroae
Binomial name
Gouxia danielaferreroae (Goux, 1989)
Synonyms
Giraudia Goux, 1989 Giraudia danielaferreroae Goux, 1989