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Issue: Vol. 5415 No. 2: 21 Feb. 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-02-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.2.10
Page range: 347-350
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New genus names, family-group names and misspellings published between 2020 and 2023 in the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha)

Natural History Museum; Department of Life Sciences; Cromwell Road; London; SW7 5BD; U.K.
Florida State Collection of Arthropods; Department of Plant Industry; Gainesville; Florida; U.S.A.
Hemiptera Sternorrhyncha Coccomorpha

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