Valid Names Results

Scythia is now Mohelnia Šulc, 1941 (Coccidae)

Scythia Kiritchenko 1938: 229. Type species: Scythia craniumequinum Kiritchenko by monotypy . unavailable name that is placed (discovered by ChenXi2021: 595)
Mohelnia Šulc 1941: 1. Type species: Mohelnia festuceti Sulc by monotypy ChenXi2021:595 . replacement name

Systematics: Subfamily: Eriopeltinae. The name Scythia Kiritchenko (1938) is preoccupied by Scythia Tschernyschew (1925), a genus of the Class Ostracoda (Arthropoda: Ostracoda incertae sedis). According to ISZN (1999) Article 52. Principle of Homonymy: “the use of the same name for different taxa must not occur and is prohibited”. Moreover “When two or more names are homonyms, only the senior, as determined by the Principle of Priority (see Article 52.3), may be used as a valid name” (ISZN,1999). Thus, the genus Scythia Kiritchenko, 1938 is a junior homonym of the genus Scythia Tschernyschew, 1925. However, because Mohelnia, a subjective synonym of Scythia Kiritchenko (see Borchsenius, 1957, Ben-Dov, 1993, is an older available name, according to ICZN (1999) Article 23.3.5: principle of priority, Mohelnia was resurrected for the genus (Chen & Xing, 2021).
General Remarks: Definition and characters by Borchsenius (1957), Tereznikova (1981), Kosztarab & Kozar (1988), Tang (1991), Russo & Longo (1991) and by Hodgson (1994a).

Pelliz2013: pp.111-112 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Palaearctic Genera of the Subfamily Eriopeltinae based on adult females] Key as: Scythia
RussoLo1991: pp.1 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic] Key as: Scythia
Terezn1981: pp.126 ( Adult (F) ) [Ukraine] Key as: Scythia
KosztaKo1978: pp.250-251 ( Adult (F) ) [Palearctic Region] Key as: Scythia
Koteja1978: pp.316 ( Adult (F) ) [Poland] Key as: Scythia
Danzig1964: pp.639 ( Adult (F) ) [Palearctic Region] Key as: Scythia
Borchs1957: pp.91, 179 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic Region] Key as: Scythia