Winthemia analis, Schiner, 1868: 330

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analis Schiner, 1868: 330 . Type locality: “South America ” [ Venezuela].?ST F (NHMW) ( Aldrich, 1925a: 130). Distr.: Venezuela and Colombia ( Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891: 406). Refs.: Aldrich, 1925a: 130 (notes on a doubtful syntype); Guimarães, 1971a: 72 (cat.). Comm.: Aldrich (1925a: 130) added some notes on what he considered a doubtful syntype, while Townsend (1931b: 166) cited the same female specimen examined by Aldrich as “ holotype ”. Schiner (1868: 330) described the species based on two males and one female, without a holotype designation. The NHMW curator Peter Sehnal (unpublished data) found two females from Venezuela collected by Lindig in 1864, which, one of them, can be the syntype female examined by Schiner. One of those females bears both Aldrich and Townsend labels. Considering that Aldrich (1925a), the first reviewer, considered that examined and labeled female a doubtful syntype, I resign here to regard Townsend (1931b) ’s holotype citation as a lectotype designation. That female is considered a doubtful syntype until further evidence.