Corythalia major Simon, 1901

Bayer, Steffen, Höfer, Hubert & Metzner, Heiko, 2020, Revision of the genus Corythalia C. L. Koch, 1850, part 1: Diagnosis and new species from South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Euophryini), Zootaxa 4806 (1), pp. 1-144 : 120-121

Corythalia major Simon, 1901

Corythalia major Simon 1901: 655 (mention of the name without any description or illustration); Petrunkevitch 1911: 617; Bonnet 1956: 1237 (recognition and assessment under status nomen nudum); Platnick (2001) (nomen nudum).

Habrocestum major— Simon 1901: 666.

Remarks. Simon (1901) listed this “species” together with Corythalia [at that time sub Habrocestum ] locuples Simon (1888) (see below), so it once must have been collected in the same locality as C. locuples (Santo Domingo, Hispaniola). A description does neither exist under the genus name Habrocestum nor under Corythalia . Additionally, (a) type (s) was/were never designated and deposited. Accordingly, a characterisation of C. major is impossible and the invalid status as a nomen nudum is justified. In the context of the first description of Anasaitis [formerly temporarily in Habrocestum and Corythalia ] locuples Simon (1888) seemingly mentioned a specimen varying from the type of H. locuples and stated: “... prope oculos squamulis majoribus laetissime purpureo-aureis vestita ...”. However, he did not list it officially as variant or subspecies with an explicit heading and an explicit description. A few years later Simon (1901) mentioned the species name, so, it is well imaginable that he had planned to describe a species with this name (including designation and deposition of a type) subsequently, but he never did.