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 .