. The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. Animals. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 63(3) September 2006 169 7. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is accordingly asked: (1) to use its plenary power to suppress the generic name Oncopiis Herrich- Schaffer, 1855 and all uses of the name before Thorell (1876) for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy; (2) to place on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology the name Oncopiis Thorell, 1876 (gender: masculine), type species by original designation and by monotypy Oncopiis doricie T


. The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. Animals. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 63(3) September 2006 169 7. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is accordingly asked: (1) to use its plenary power to suppress the generic name Oncopiis Herrich- Schaffer, 1855 and all uses of the name before Thorell (1876) for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy; (2) to place on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology the name Oncopiis Thorell, 1876 (gender: masculine), type species by original designation and by monotypy Oncopiis doricie Thorell, 1876 (Arachnida); (3) to place on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology the name doriae Thorell, 1876, as published in the binomen Oncopiis doriae (specific name of the type species of Oncopiis Thorell, 1876) (Arachnida); (4) to place on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology the name ONCOPODiDAE Thorcll, 1876 (type genus Oncopiis Thorell, 1876) (Arachnida); (5) to place on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology the name Oncopiis Herrich-SchaflFer, 1855 as suppressed in (1) above (Lepidoptera). Acknowledgements Dr Axel Hausmann (Zoologische Staatssamnihmg Miinchen) kindly conmiented on bibliographic references to Oncopiis Herrich-Schaffer, 1855 and pointed out one paper that we had overlooked. Dr Bernard Landry (Museum d'histoire natiirelle, Geneve) helped searching for these Fig. 1. Oncopiis inmcalus Thorell, 1891, female from Singapore; drawing by A. Coray (Basel). References Brands, (coinp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Online at: accessed in May 2006. Bristowe, 1976. Rare arachnids from Malaysia and Sumatra. Journal of Zoology, 178: Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Internation


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