Lasiodora bahiensis Strand, 1907

Bertani, Rogério, 2023, Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Lasiodora C. L. Koch, 1850 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) with notes on related genera, Zootaxa 5390 (1), pp. 1-116 : 103

Lasiodora bahiensis Strand, 1907 nomen dubium

Lasiodora bahiensis Strand, 1907: 54 ; Mello-Leitão 1921: 345 (junior synonym of L. klugi ).

Type material. Syntypes: two males and immature female from Brazil, state of Bahia, Glocker col., SMNS, lost).

Remark. Strand (1907) described two males and a small female from state of Bahia, Brazil as Lasiodora klugi and stated that, if the specimens are not conspecific with L. klugi , it should be given the name L. bahiensis for the species. Some years after, Mello-Leitão (1921) synonymized L. bahiensis Strand, 1907 with L. klugi . The syntypes should be deposited at SMNS, but they were not located. According to the curator, Dr. Joachim Holstein, “there are no specimens of Araneae in our collection older than from the 1960s and it is evident, that all Strand specimens got lost in WW II”. Strand (1907) gave detailed measurements of most relevant body structures as carapace, legs, chelicera, spinnerets, and described eyes positions, as well the color pattern of the three specimens. However, none of these characters allow the identification of Lasiodora species, and, since the type is lost, I consider Lasiodora bahiensis a nomen dubium.