Psalmopoeus maya Witt 1996

Abstract

Psalmopoeus maya Witt, 1996 nomen nudum Psalmopoeus maya Witt, 1996: 1, figs 1–7. Gabriel 2018: 36; Gabriel and Sherwood 2020: 391. Type material. Holotype male and paratypes male and exuvium of female, should be deposited at Zoologischen Museum Hamburg (ZMH), not found (see Gabriel and Sherwood 2020). Witt (1996) described a male and female from Belize, and distinguished the species by its unique coloration and the northern distribution-range. The figures show the male with copulatory organ having a short embolus similar to P. reduncus and P. victori and the female with elongate spermathecae with apical lobe well sclerotized, thus resembling P. victori. However, the types were never deposited (Gabriel and Sherwood 2020), the figures are not detailed and the description does not allow the identification of the species. Therefore, we consider Psalmopoeus maya Vitt, 1996 a nomem nudum.Published as part of Cifuentes, Yeimy & Bertani, Rogerio, 2022, Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the tarantula genera Tapinauchenius Ausserer, 1871, Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1985, and Amazonius n. gen. (Theraphosidae, Psalmopoeinae), pp. 1-123 in Zootaxa 5101 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5101.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/625322