Zalmoxis thorelli new name

Acrozalmoxis neoguinensis Roewer, 1915, p. 17, fig. 8 [junior secondary homonym of Euzalmoxis neoguinensis Roewer, 1915]; Roewer, 1923, p. 93

Record. *Sattelberg, Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea [Madang, Papua New Guinea].

Remarks. The monotypic genus Acrozalmoxis Roewer, 1915 was distinguished from Zalmoxis on the basis of the armature of the ocularium, posterior scutum, and free tergites; and the shape of the transverse plates, i.e., sulci ("Querfürche"), but as Goodnight & Goodnight (1953) have demonstrated, the characters used to delimit this genus cannot be used to distinguish genera reliably, much less species (see Discussion for review of Goodnight & Goodnight, 1953). Furthermore, numerous Zalmoxis species described subsequent to the erection of Acrozalmoxis demonstrate morphological variation that encompasses the "uniqueness" of Acrozalmoxis, e.g., ocularial and scutal armature. Consequently, we collapse this genus into Zalmoxis and designate a new specific epithet due to the preoccupation of Zalmoxis neoguinensis . The specific epithet honors Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell, who described the first two species of Zalmoxidae from New Guinea.