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(plant):New Latin, Clive(“a surname”) + -ia, named by botanist John Lindley (1799-1865) after Charlotte Florentina Clive (died 1866)[1][2]
(wasp): From Latinclivus(“rise, slope”), referring to the strongly convexscutellum. Named and described in 2005 by Yan-Zhou Zhang and Da-Wei Huang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[3]
^ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
^ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.
^ Zhang, Y.Z.; Huang, D.W. (2005) A new genus and a new species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from China., JOURBOOK: Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica VOLUME: 30(1) PAGES: 150-154
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