“…From the revision by Kraepelin (1911) until the monograph work of Mello-Leitão (1945) no new species of this genus were described. Subsequently, five new species were described from Venezuela, T. carmelinae Scorza, 1954, T. adrianae González-Sponga, 1975, T. akananensis González-Sponga, 1984, T. maturaca González-Sponga, 1991 and T. reticulatus González-Sponga, 1991, three from Brazil, T. lisei Lourenço, 1994, T. braziliensis Lourenço & Duhem, 2010 and T. newaribe Lourenço, Giupponi & Pedroso, 2011, one from Colombia, T. guerdouxi Lourenço, 1995 and one from Peru, T. castiglii Rossi, 2015 ( Lourenço 1994a , 1995b , Lourenço and Duhem 2010 , Lourenço et al 2011 , González-Sponga 1996 , Rossi 2015 ). Almost all the species of Teuthraustes , so far described, were collected in the Andean mountains in Ecuador and Colombia, and in the Amazonian highlands of Venezuela and Brazil.…”