Phytotriades auratus (Boulenger 1917)

Type: BMNH 1917.9.27.39–41

Type locality: “ Mount Tucutche, a little above 3,000 feet altitude,” Trinidad .

Distribution: Region 2. Only known from Trinidad island and Cerro El Humo in Península de Paria (northwestern Venezuela), Sucre State. Probably in other localities of Paria over 1,000 m where the giant bromeliad Glomeropitcairnia erectiflora (its microhabitat) is present.

Remarks: Considered as Critically Endangered by current Venezuelan Red Book (De Freitas and Rivas 2015).

Selected references: Faivovich et al. (2005); Jowers et al. (2009); De Freitas and Rivas (2015); Rivas and De Freitas (2015).