Revision of the genus Corythalia C. L. Koch, 1850, part 1: Diagnosis and new species from South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Euophryini) Author Bayer, Steffen Author Höfer, Hubert Author Metzner, Heiko text Zootaxa 2020 2020-06-30 4806 1 1 144 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4806.1.1 1175-5326 3927380 722DB6C9-2C18-48EB-B202-7F2AFF47F49F Corythalia variegata Caporiacco, 1954 Corythalia variegata Caporiacco 1954: 179 , fig. 67 description & illustration of A juvenile. instead of, juvenile male from French Guiana : Saint-Laurent-du Maroni: Charvein, ca. 05°34’N , 53°54’W , about 20 m a.s.l., R. Benoist leg. Dec. 1913 , MNHN (Col. No. unknown), holotype requested at MNHN, but lost (C. Rollard, pers. comm.), thus not examined; Ruiz & Brescovit 2008: 493 (assessment as nomen dubium ); ( nomen dubium ). FIGURE 58. Corythalia spp., photographic images of male specimens, dorsal view. Corythalia fimbriata : A Holotype from Bahia, Brazil. Corythalia argentinensis : B Holotype from Misiones, Argentina. Corythalia luctuosa : C Lectotype from Saint Laurent du Maroni, French Guiana. Corythalia cincta : D Holotype from Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. Corythalia scutellaris Bayer , sp. nov. : E Holotype from south-eastern part of Ecuador. Corythalia waleckii : F Syntype MIZ 225794, Cayenne, French Guiana. Corythalia tropica : G Holotype from Falcon, Venezuela. Corythalia foelixi Bayer , sp. nov. : H Holotype from Cayenne, French Guiana. Corythalia fulgipedia : I Male AMNH-IZC 00327930 from Aragua, Venezuela. Remarks. The assessment of C. variegata as a nomen dubium by Ruiz & Brescovit (2008) is absolutely justified and will definitely not change anymore. Even, if the juvenile male holotype would be found in the future, it would be impossible to define this species, as the male copulatory organ is not developed in this specimen. A definite discrimination of Corythalia species, however, is not possible without the examination of copulatory organs of adult specimens. The present study has shown that colouration patterns, if at all, may help distinguish certain groups of species, but definitely not to recognise a particular species. Additionally, a certain degree of variation in coloura- tion is recognisable among different specimens of most species and especially the colouration of the opisthosoma depends on the nutritional state or the maturity of females (i.e. state of the oogenesis). Moreover, Crane (1948) had found out that the colouration of juvenile specimens often differ from that of adults. In French Guiana several other Corythalia species occur, e.g. C. waleckii , C. luctuosa , C. spiralis , C. foelixi Bayer , sp. nov. , C. fulgipedia . It is not to exclude that the juvenile type of C. variegata is conspecific with one of these species. In any case, as the type specimen is juvenile, it is impossible to discriminate C. variegata from other Corythalia species based on the description and the illustration ( Fig. 67 ) in Caporiacco (1954) .