World Spider Catalog

Genus: Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Psalmopoeus maya Witt, 1996

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002369

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Described:

Distribution: Belize

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Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany presumably lost (holotype m, allotype f [described from exuvia], paratype 1m) - (Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020b)

Taxonomic References

Psalmopoeus maya Witt, 1996: 1, f. 1-7 (Dmf) Original description

Psalmopoeus maya Gabriel, 2018: 36 (removed from S. of P. reduncus, rejecting Gabriel, 2008: 10)

Psalmopoeus maya Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020b: 391 (species inquirenda)

Psalmopoeus maya Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022: 98 (declared a nomen nudum, but the status species inquirenda is maintained here, because it cannot be a nomen nudum, see ICZN Glossary about nomina nuda "... if published after 1930, fails to conform to Article 13", which is clearly not the case)

References

Cifuentes, Y. & Bertani, R. (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): 1-123. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5101.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2020b). Revised taxonomic placement of some Mesoamerican Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895, with description of three new species (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(4): 387-398. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.387 -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R. (2018). Some notes and observations on the identity and breeding of Psalmopoeus reduncus (Karsch, 1880) (Araneae: Aviculariinae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 32(3): 34-40. -- Show included taxa

Witt, G. (1996). Eine neue Psalmopoeus-Species aus Belize Psalmopoeus maya sp. n. (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Aviculariinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 4(4): 1-14. -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-02-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022
2020-03-24	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2020-03-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Gabriel, 2018
2020-03-24	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2020-03-24	Species updated	Gabriel, 2018	Old value	Removed synonymy