Zalmoxis mutus

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 : 50

Zalmoxis mutus new name

Gagirius neoguinensis Roewer, 1949a , p. 28, figs 40a–d (pl. 5) [junior secondary homonym of Euzalmoxis neoguinensis Roewer, 1915 ].

Zalmoxis neoguinensis [partim.]: Goodnight & Goodnight, 1957, p. 81.

Record. *Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen [Madang, Papua New Guinea].

Etymology. Species name comes from Latin mutus (= dumb), referring to the fact that it remained "silent" and undetected by subsequent authors, concealed by the taxonomic confusion of Roewer.

Remarks. Roewer (1949a) referred to a species named " Gagirius neoguinensis Müller, 1913 " as the type of the new genus Gagirius , indicated " Roewer, 1923 (part)" and cited material from the Budapest Museum. This means that he decided to pick part of the type series of Müller's species and create a new one. But the specific name was kept the same, and all without clear explanation. If both genera Euzalmoxis and Gagirius are kept as junior synonyms of Zalmoxis , the two other species described under the name neoguinensis will become junior secondary homonyms of Euzalmoxis neoguinensis Roewer, 1915 .