Mervin William Nielson
Mervin William Nielson, American entomologist.
- Monte L. Bean Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.
Taxon names authored
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Publications
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1982
[edit]- Nielson, M.W. 1982. A revision of the subfamily Coelidiinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). IV. Tribe Coelidiini. Pacific Insects Monograph 38: 1–318. full article (PDF). Reference page.
1988
[edit]- Nielson, M.W. 1988. New genera and new species of Neotropical Coelidiini (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae). Great Basin Naturalist 48(2): 232–249. Full article. Reference page.
2011
[edit]- Nielson, M.W. 2011. Tribe Coelidiini: new genera and new species of Neotropical leafhoppers with revised key to genera and species, taxonomic fragmentation and new distribution records (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae). Zootaxa 2953: 1–85. Preview
Reference page.
2012
[edit]- Nielson, M.W. & Zahniser, J.N. 2012. On the unassigned species of the subfamily Coelidiinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Zootaxa 3279: 63–68. Preview Reference page.
- Zahniser, J.N. & Nielson, M.W. 2012. An extraordinary new genus and three new species of Acostemmini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Madagascar with comments on the morphology and classification of the tribe. Zootaxa 3209: 28–52. Preview Reference page.
2014
[edit]- Nielson, M.W., Zack, R.S., Poggi, F. & Nickel, H. 2014. New leafhopper species of Jikradia from Mesoamerica with new records, revised key to species, distribution, origin, and checklist (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae: Teruliini). Revista de Biología Tropical 62(4): 1375–1383. Full article. Reference page.
2015
[edit]- Nielson, M.W. 2015. A revision of the tribe Coelidiini of the Oriental, Palearctic and Australian biogeographical regions (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae). Insecta Mundi 410: 1–202. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
2018
[edit]- Nielson, M.W., Viraktamath, C.A. & van der Laan, R. 2018. Case 3582 – Scaris Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 and Scarides (Scaridae) Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Insecta, Hemiptera): proposed suppression to remove homonymy of the latter with Scaridi (currently Scaridae) Rafinesque, 1810 (Osteichthyes). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75: 6–11. Reference page.