Mervin William Nielson

Mervin William Nielson, American entomologist.

• Monte L. Bean Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.

• 48taxon names authored by Mervin William Nielson

1982

• 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

• 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. 

2014

• 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. 

2018

• 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.