Taxon details
Vitalius sorocabae (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2023-12-30
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002503]
- Distribution: Brazil
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1952.11.26.1) of Vitalius sylviae (Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023)
- Paratype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 2f (AR 4774) of Vitalius sylviae (Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023)
Pamphobeteus melanocephalus Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 234 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058351].
Pamphobeteus sorocabae Bücherl, 1947a: 257 (S of Pamphobeteus melanocephalus).
Pamphobeteus sorocabae Bücherl, 1957: 403, f. 88-88a (m).
Pamphobeteus sorocabae Schmidt, 1986: 59, f. 98-99 (m).
Vitalius sorocabae Lucas, Silva & Bertani, 1993: 243, f. 1-3 (mf, T from Pamphobeteus).
Vitalius sorocabae Schmidt, 1993d: 100, f. 308-309 (m).
Vitalius sorocabae Pérez-Miles et al., 1996: 59, f. 49-50 (mf).
Vitalius sorocabae Schmidt, 1997g: 20, f. 230, 232-233 (mf).
Vitalius sorocabae Bertani, 2000: 30, f. 33-34 (m).
Vitalius sorocabae Peters, 2000b: 134, f. 397-399 (mf).
Vitalius sorocabae Bertani, 2001: 292, f. 17, 74-82, 178 (mf).
Vitalius sorocabae Peters, 2003: 310, f. 1236-1239, 1241-1242 (mf).
Vitalius sorocabae Schmidt, 2003l: 140, f. 227, 229-230 (mf).
Nhandu sylviae Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023: 709, f. 1-8 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057451].
Vitalius sorocabae Bertani, 2023b: 110 (S of Nhandu sylviae).
Bertani, R. (2000). Male palpal bulbs and homologous features in Theraphosinae (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Journal of Arachnology 28: 29-42. 
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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 -- Show included taxa
Bertani, R. (2023b). Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Lasiodora C. L. Koch, 1850 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) with notes on related genera. Zootaxa 5390(1): 1-116. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5390.1.1 -- Show included taxa
Bücherl, W. (1947a). Estudo comparativo das espécies brasileiras do género Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901 (Mygalomorphae). Memórias do Instituto Butantan 20: 233-282. -- 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. -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1923a). Theraphosideas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 13: 1-438. -- Show included taxa
Pérez-Miles, F., Lucas, S. M., Silva Jr., P. I. da & Bertani, R. (1996). Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Mygalomorph 1: 33-68. -- Show included taxa
Peters, H.-J. (2000b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 2. Published by the author, 162 pp. -- 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"] -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1986). Vogelspinnen: Lebensweise, Bestimmungsschlüssel, Haltung und Zucht. Albrecht Philler, Minden, 126 pp. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1993d). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch, Hannover, 151 pp. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1997g). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der Unterfamilie Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnologisches Magazin 3(Sonderausgabe): 1-27. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Hohenwarsleben, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa
Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R. & Brescovit, A. D. (2023). Nhandu sylviae sp. nov.: first record of the genus from Guyana (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(4): 708-712. doi:10.13156/arac.2023.19.4.708 -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-30 | New taxonomic reference entry | Bertani, 2023b | n/a |
| 2023-12-30 | Species synonymy | Bertani, 2023b | Vitalius sylviae synonymized with Vitalius sorocabae |