Zalmoxidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) of the Paleotropics: a catalogue of Southeast Asian and Indo-Pacific species Author Sharma, Prashant P. Author Kury, Adriano B. Author Giribet, Gonzalo text Zootaxa 2011 2972 37 58 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.206628 edfa19b9-1107-4839-a098-e25b9f814bf1 1175-5326 206628 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 .