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Nomenclature Established as a substitute name for Homalia Handmann, 1887, which Cossmann (1899), despite being aware of the difference, treated as a junior homonym of “Homala Schumacher” (actually Omala Schumacher, 1817, unjustified emendation to “Homala” by Agassiz 1847). [details]