Vara nevermanni Brindle, 1966

10. Vara nevermanni Brindle, 1966 View in CoL

Original combination

Opisthocosmia anomalia Rehn, 1903: 308–309 View in CoL .

Vara nevermanni Brindle, 1966: 138–139 View in CoL .

Current combination

Sarcinatrix anomalia ( Rehn, 1903) — Steinmann, 1989: 664.

Type material

Holotype ( 1 male; in ethanol) COSTA RICA • ♂ (Fig. 32); “Costa Rica / Farm Hamburg / am Reventazon / 5. 9. 33 / F. Nevermann leg. / Eing. Nr. 42,1934. // Type // Vara / nevermanni Brindle / A. Brindle 1966 / holotype—allotype // An trockenem / Laub. // ZMH 866022 “

Paratypes ( 1 males, 5 females, 3 nymphs; in ethanol)

COSTA RICA • 1 ♀ (Fig. 33); “Costa Rica / Farm Hamburg / am Reventazon / 5. 9. 33 / F. Nevermann leg. / Eing. Nr. 42,1934. // Type // Vara / nevermanni Brindle / A. Brindle 1966 / holotype—allotype // An trockenem / Laub. // ZMH 866023 “ • 1 nymph (Fig. 34); “Costa Rica / Turrialba / 29. VIII. 32 / An Carica papaya / F. Nevermann leg. / Eing. Nr. 42,1934. // Para- / type // Vara / nevermanni Brindle / A. Brindle 1966 / paratypes // Auf welkem / Laub. // ZMH 866014 ” • 1♀ (Fig. 35); “ Costa Rica / Turrialba / 29. VIII. 32 / An Carica papaya / F. Nevermann leg. / Eing. Nr. 42,1934. // Para- / type // Vara / nevermanni Brindle / A. Brindle 1966 / paratypes // Auf welkem / Laub. // ZMH 866015 ” • 1 ♀ (Fig. 36); “ Costa Rica / Farm Hamburg / am Reventazon / 9. II. 34. An Blätt. / v. Heliocarpus / F. Nevermann leg. / Eing. Nr. 42,1934. // Para- / type // Vara / nevermanni Brindle / A. Brindle 1966 / paratype // ZMH 866016 “ • 1 ♀ (Fig. 37); “ Costa Rica / Farm Hamburg / am Reventazon / 3. XII. 1931. / Urwald welkes Laub. / F. Nevermann leg. / Eing. Nr. 104,1932. // Para- / type // Vara / nevermanni Brindle / A. Brindle 1966 / paratype // ZMH 866017 “ • 2 nymphs (Fig. 38–39); “ Costa Rica / Farm Hamburg / am Reventazon / 3. XII. 1931. / Urwald welkes Laub. / F. Nevermann leg. / Eing. Nr. 104,1932. // Para- / type // Vara / nevermanni Brindle / A. Brindle 1966 / paratype // ZMH 866018–866019 “ • 1 ♂ (Fig. 40); “ Costa Rica / Farm Hamburg am / Reventazon 3. 3. 1933. / An welken Blättern. / F. Nevermann leg. / Eing. Nr. 108,1933. // Para- / type // Vara / nevermanni Brindle / A. Brindle 1966 / paratype // ZMH 866020 “ • 1 ♀ (Fig. 41); “ Costa Rica / Farm Hamburg / am Reventazon / 3. 7. 33 / F. Nevermann leg. / Eing. Nr. 42,1934. // Para- / type // Vara / nevermanni Brindle / A. Brindle 1966 / paratype [seems like it said “ paratypes ” at some point, but the last letter was cut off at some point] // Auf welkem Laub. // ZMH 866021 ”

Type locality

Costa Rica: Farm Hamburg at Reventazón River.

Current status

Accepted synonym of Sarcinatrix anomalia ( Rehn, 1903) .

Remarks

In the original description Brindle lists ten type specimens ( one male holotype, one female allotype, three male and five female paratypes), two of them being housed in the Manchester Museum (one pair of paratypes) and one in the Natural History Museum in London (female paratype). In congruence with this information, Weidner (1977) lists seven type specimens for Vara nevermanni in the ZMH type catalogue ( Weidner 1977). During our research, we actually found ten type specimens in the ZMH wet collection that match the collection event data from the original description for the most part. There are some minor differences in two dates ( 3.12.1931 / 3.12.1932; 29.8.1932 / 29.7.1932), but this may just be a mistake either on the label or in the original description. The Manchester Museum also has more type specimens than Brindle states ( Miles 2015); so, perhaps the original type series consists of more than just ten specimens.

In addition, it seems that one specimen listed in Weider (1977) was lost. He listed two specimens ( one male, one female) for the collection date 3.7.1933. We only found one female specimen. Either, the male was indeed lost, or it was misplaced in one of the other tubes belonging to this type series. It may also be that Weidner listed this male falsely. As the overall number of type specimens of this species appears inconsistent, it is difficult to understand what happened.