A taxonomic revision of the family Oncopodidae VI. Martensiellus, a new genus from Borneo, and the discovery of a tarsal pore organ in Oncopodidae (Opiliones: Laniatores)
Author
Schwendinger, Peter J.
text
Zootaxa
2006
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255
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.174076
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174076
Oncopodidae Thorell, 1876
Type
genus
.
Oncopus
Thorell, 1876
;
type
species by original designation and by monotypy,
Oncopus doriae
Thorell, 1876
.
Remark
. The name of the
type
genus,
Oncopus
Thorell, 1876
(without a synonym), is preoccupied by
Oncopus
HerrichSchäffer, 1855
(with a synonym) for a genus of South American geometrid moths with two species. Substituting
Oncopus
Thorell
by a new name, as proposed by Özdikmen & Kury (in press), would result in several other nomenclatural changes: Mandatory new combinations for twelve species names, two of which are currently in synonymy and one of which,
Oncopus cuspidatus
Schwendinger
, is the
type
species of the genus
Caenoncopus
Martens & Schwendinger
, plus the corresponding replacement of the family name
Oncopodidae Thorell
and of the superfamily name Oncopodoidea Thorell.
Oncopus
Thorell
is a widely used name, which is not the case in
Oncopus
HerrichSchäffer. Therefore
the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has been asked to use its plenary powers to suppress the senior homonym (Schwendinger & Martens in press, a). Receipt of this case was published in
September 2005
(International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 2005: 126). As long as this matter is under consideration by the Commission, the prevailing usage of names has to be maintained [see Article 82 of the current edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999)].