Georgeiella, a new name for the louse genus Hopkinsiella Clay and Meinertzhagen, 1939 (Phthiraptera, Philopteridae), junior homonym of Hopkinsiella Baba, 1938 (Opisthobranchia, Goniodorididae)

Clay and Meinertzhagen (1939) described the genus Hopkinsiella to accommodate one new species of louse found on the Kikuyu white-headed wood-hoopoe—Phoeniculus bollei jacksoni (Sharpe, 1890)—of the bird family Phoeniculidae. Tendeiro (1957) described a second species of Hopkinsiella, parasitic on a bird species of the same family. Subsequently,
Tendeiro (1961) described one more species and reviewed all the species included in the genus. We have found that the name Hopkinsiella Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1939 is preoccupied by Hopkinsiella Baba, 1938, a genus of nudibranchs – marine gastropod molluscs of the order Opisthobranchia (Baba, 1938).
This homonymy has gone unnoticed in at least six publications dealing with the genus Hopkinsiella: Tendeiro (1957, 1961), Ledger (1980), Hopkins & Clay (1952), Eichler (1963) and Price et al. (2003). The Code (ICZN, 1999: Art. 60.1) reads: “A junior homonym must be rejected and replaced either by an available and potentially valid synonym or, for lack of such a name, by a new substitute name”. Since there is no synonym available for Hopkinsiella Clay & Meinertzhagen, 1939 (Price et al., 2003), we propose a new name to replace this genus of chewing lice, according to Art.
60.3 of the ICZN (1999).