Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the tarantula genera Tapinauchenius Ausserer, 1871, Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1985, and Amazonius n. gen. (Theraphosidae, Psalmopoeinae)
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Cifuentes, Yeimy
Author
Bertani, Rogerio
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Zootaxa
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2022-02-23
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5101.1.1
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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
.