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Meruacesa
Scientific 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
	Meruacesa arabica Narendran and Subair Ahmad, 2012; Meruacesa camerounensis (Risbec, 1955); Meruacesa cuprata (Ferrière, 1960); Meruacesa elegans (Delucchi, 1962); Meruacesa liriomyzae (Boucek, 1988);
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

^ 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.

External links

Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine

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[Koçak-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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