150­. Perustigmus alticolus Verhoeff, 1941

Verhoeff 1941: 64 (as P. alticolus n. sp.)

Type locality and specimens. Südperu [Southern Peru], Rio Sondondo, 2370 m, 18.4.1936 ; Sivia, 500 m , in Gartenerde [in garden soils]. Corrected in the reprint edition (Verhoeff, 1951) to Querobamba, 3560 m .

Dimensions. 45 mm Länge [length].

Type material. Syntypes 2. PERU: Ayacucho Region, Rió Sondono [ca. 13°56’S, 73°52’W] .

Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 70, No, 69. Holotype.

Collection remarks. The specimens were collected during the Hamburger Südperu-Expedition in 1936. They are from Río Sondondo in Ayacucho, Perú.

Additional remarks. The specimen was destroyed by fire in World War II (Weidner 1960).

Current systematic position. Junior synonym of Cormocephalus andinus (Kraus, 1957) . Also note that the genus name Perustigmus is unavailable because it was proposed without designating a type species. Shelley & Chagas (2005: 179) placed it in the synonymy of Cormocephalus .