Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Vitalius

Vitalius dubius (Mello-Leitão, 1923)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-04-17
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039200]
  • Distribution: Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); f (01409, probably destroyed by the fire 2018) of Pamphobeteus exsul
  • Holotype: Museu de Zoologia da ‘Luiz de Queiroz’ (MZLQ), Piracicaba, Brazil [collection now in IBSP?]; m (A0042) of Pamphobeteus communis (Paschoal & Barros, 1983)
  • Holotype: Museu de Zoologia da ‘Luiz de Queiroz’ (MZLQ), Piracicaba, Brazil [collection now in IBSP?]; f (A0051) of Pamphobeteus mus (Paschoal & Barros, 1983)
Taxonomic references
Pterinopelma dubium Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 188 (Dm).
Pamphobeteus cesteri Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 236 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002498].
Pamphobeteus cucullatus Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 237 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058353].
Pamphobeteus exsul Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 240 (Df; nomen dubium per Bertani, 2001: 310) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058354].
Pamphobeteus piracicabensis Piza, 1933a: 119 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058356].
Pamphobeteus communis Piza, 1939a: 6, f. 7-9 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058352].
Pamphobeteus urbanicolus Soares, 1941: 265, f. 6-7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058357].
Pamphobeteus ypiranguensis Soares, 1941: 268, f. 8-12 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058358].
Pamphobeteus mus Piza, 1944: 274, pl. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058355].
Pamphobeteus cesteri Bücherl, 1947a: 258 (S of Pamphobeteus cucullatus, P. exsul, P. piracicabensis, P. urbanicola and P. ypiranguensis).
Eurypelma dubium Bücherl, 1957: 393, f. 43-43a (m).
Pamphobeteus cesteri Bücherl, 1957: 402, f. 84 (m).
Pamphobeteus tetracanthus Bücherl, 1957: 403, f. 89-89a (m, misidentified).
Eurypelma dubium Schmidt, 1986: 50, f. 59-60 (m).
Pamphobeteus tetracanthus Schmidt, 1986: 59, f. 100-101 (m, misidentified).
Vitalius cesteri Lucas, Silva & Bertani, 1993: 245 (T from Pamphobeteus).
Aphonopelma dubium Schmidt, 1993d: 78, f. 176-177 (m).
Vitalius tetracanthus Schmidt, 1993d: 100, f. 303-304 (m, misidentified).
Vitalius cesteri Schmidt, 1993d: 98, f. 306 (m).
Vitalius tetracanthus Schmidt, 1997g: 20, f. 226, 231 (m, misidentified).
Vitalius cesteri Schmidt, 1997g: 20, f. 228 (m).
Vitalius tetracanthus Schmidt, 1999f: 15, f. 37 (m, misidentified).
Vitalius tetracanthus Bertani, 2000: 30, f. 4 (m, misidentified).
Vitalius cesteri Peters, 2000b: 130, f. 379 (m).
Vitalius tetracanthus Peters, 2000b: 135, f. 403-404 (m).
Vitalius dubius Bertani, 2001: 298, f. 10-11, 23, 91-100, 182-183 (mf, removed from S of V. wacketi, contra Bücherl, Timotheo & Lucas, 1971: 129, sub Pterinopelma, S of Vitalius cesteri, V. communis and V. mus).
Vitalius dubius Peters, 2003: 306, f. 1209, 1213-1214 (mf).
Vitalius dubius Schmidt, 2003l: 193, f. 533-535 (mf).
Vitalius tetracanthus Schmidt, 2003l: 195, f. 551-552 (m [after Bücherl, 1957: 403, f. 89-89a], misidentified).
Vitalius dubius Peters, 2005b: 119, f. 376-381 (mf).
References

Bertani, R. (2000). Male palpal bulbs and homologous features in Theraphosinae (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Journal of Arachnology 28: 29-42. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bertani, R. (2001). Revision, cladistic analysis, and zoogeography of Vitalius, Nhandu, and Proshapalopus; with notes on other theraphosine genera (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Arquivos de Zoologia 36(3): 265-356. doi:10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v36i3p265-356 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W. (1947a). Estudo comparativo das espécies brasileiras do género Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901 (Mygalomorphae). Memórias do Instituto Butantan 20: 233-282. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W. (1957). Sôbre a importância dos bulbos copuladores e das apófises tibiais dos machos na sistemática das aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 29: 377-416. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lucas, S., Silva Jr., P. I. da & Bertani, R. (1993). Vitalius a new genus of the subfamily Theraphosinae Thorell, 1870 from Brazil (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Spixiana 16: 241-245. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1923a). Theraphosideas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 13: 1-438. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2000b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 2. Published by the author, 162 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2003). Tarantulas of the world: Amerika's Vogelspinnen. Published by the author, Wegberg, Germany, 328 pp. [Longhorn & Gabriel, 2019: 109: "We consider much of the information in Peters (2003) as erroneous"] download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peters, H.-J. (2005b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 3. Published by the author, 130 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Piza Jr., S. de T. (1933a). Una nova Theraphosa (Aviculariidae) brasileira. Revista de Agricultura, Piracicaba 8: 119-121. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Piza Jr., S. de T. (1939a). Novas aranhas do Brasil. Revista de Agricultura, Piracicaba 14(7-8): 1-8. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Piza Jr., S. de T. (1944). Seis aranhas e um opilião novos do Brasil. Revista de Agricultura, Piracicaba 19: 263-276. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1986). Vogelspinnen: Lebensweise, Bestimmungsschlüssel, Haltung und Zucht. Albrecht Philler, Minden, 126 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1993d). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch, Hannover, 151 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1997g). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der Unterfamilie Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnologisches Magazin 3(Sonderausgabe): 1-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1999f). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der argentinischen Vogelspinnen und kommentierte Liste der argentinischen Vogelspinnenarten (Arachnida: Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae. Arachnologisches Magazin 7(11/12): 1-17. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Hohenwarsleben, 383 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Soares, B. A. M. (1941). Algumas aranhas novas do Brasil. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria de Agricultura, Sao Paolo 1: 255-270. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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