Zalmoxis thorelli

Sharma, Prashant P., Kury, Adriano B. & Giribet, Gonzalo, 2011, Zalmoxidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) of the Paleotropics: a catalogue of Southeast Asian and Indo-Pacific species, Zootaxa 2972, pp. 37-58 : 53

Zalmoxis thorelli new name

Acrozalmoxis neoguinensis Roewer, 1915 , p. 17, fig. 8 [junior secondary homonym of Euzalmoxis neoguinensis Roewer, 1915 ]; Roewer, 1923, p. 93

Record. *Sattelberg, Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea [Madang, Papua New Guinea].

Remarks. The monotypic genus Acrozalmoxis Roewer, 1915 was distinguished from Zalmoxis on the basis of the armature of the ocularium, posterior scutum, and free tergites; and the shape of the transverse plates, i.e., sulci ("Querfürche"), but as Goodnight & Goodnight (1953) have demonstrated, the characters used to delimit this genus cannot be used to distinguish genera reliably, much less species (see Discussion for review of Goodnight & Goodnight, 1953). Furthermore, numerous Zalmoxis species described subsequent to the erection of Acrozalmoxis demonstrate morphological variation that encompasses the "uniqueness" of Acrozalmoxis , e.g., ocularial and scutal armature. Consequently, we collapse this genus into Zalmoxis and designate a new specific epithet due to the preoccupation of Zalmoxis neoguinensis . The specific epithet honors Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell, who described the first two species of Zalmoxidae from New Guinea.