Neischnocolus obscurus (Ausserer, 1875) nomen dubium

Fig. 2

Ischnocolus obscurus Ausserer, 1875: 171 .

Eurypelma obscurum – Roewer 1942: 240.

Ami obscura – Pérez-Miles et al. 2008: 65.

Neischnocolus obscurus – Pérez-Miles et al. 2019: 154.

Remarks

The type material of N. obscurus is lost, searches by RG and DS on a number of occasions in both the Natural History Museum, London, and Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna [the two museums which hold what survives of the Ausserer collection] have failed to turn up the specimens. Therefore, it is impossible to clarify the taxonomy of this species until topotypic material can be collected and a neotype designated for stability. We propose N. obscurus be regarded as nomen dubium.