Psalmopoeus maya Witt, 1996

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), Zootaxa 5101 (1), pp. 1-123 : 98

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5101.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6316520
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scientific name	Psalmopoeus maya Witt, 1996
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Psalmopoeus maya Witt, 1996 View in CoL nomen nudum

Psalmopoeus maya Witt, 1996: 1 View in CoL , 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.