In the eighties, Russian paleontologist Lev Nesov was informed by an entomologist that the name Titanopteryx had already been given by Günther Enderlein to a fly from the Simulidae family in 1935.
The discovery of an existing name for a fly species named Titanopteryx led to a situation where Russian paleontologist Lev Nesov had to deal with the pre-existing scientific naming convention established by Günther Enderlein in 1935.