Abstract
Our attention was recently called to one generic nomen in Arachnida Opiliones which is a junior homonym, hitherto undetected (see Kury 2003). Below, a replacement nomen is provided to comply with the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999).References
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