An application to conserve the generic name Oncopus Thorell, 1876 for a group of nine opilionids from Southeast Asia, together with the family-group name oncopodidae Thorell, 1876 for geometrid moths from Asia, by suppressing the little used senior homonym Oncopus Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 for two South American Lepidoptera has not been approved.
Oncopus Thorell, 1876 and oncopodidae Thorell, 1876 (Arachnida, Opiliones): proposed conservation of the names not approved," The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 65(1), 66-67, (1 March 2008). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v65i1.a13
