Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Vitalius

Vitalius wacketi (Mello-Leitão, 1923)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001781]
  • 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); Pamphobeteus insularis Mello-Leitão, 1923, (01405); 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Pterinopelma wacketi Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 185, f. 114-115 (Dm).
Pamphobeteus insularis Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 241 (Df).
Pamphobeteus masculus Piza, 1939a: 6, f. 4-6 (Dm).
Pamphobeteus platyomma Bücherl, 1949a: 126, pl. II (m, misidentified).
Pamphobeteus platyomma Bücherl, 1957: 403, f. 86 (m, misidentified).
Pterinopelma wacketi Bücherl, Timotheo & Lucas, 1971: 129 (Tm from Eurypelma=Avicularia, erroneous S of V. dubius and V. vellutinus).
Pamphobeteus litoralis Piza, 1976b: 56 (Dm).
Pamphobeteus platyomma Schmidt, 1986: 59, f. 96 (m, misidentified).
Vitalius platyomma Schmidt, 1993d: 100, f. 307 (m, misidentified).
Aphonopelma wacketi Schmidt, 1997g: 19, f. 176, 183 (m).
Vitalius platyomma Schmidt, 1997g: 20, f. 229 (m, misidentified).
Vitalius platyomma Schmidt, 1998d: 5, f. 3 (f, misidentified).
Vitalius platyomma Peters, 2000b: 132, f. 388-389 (mf, misidentified).
Vitalius wacketi Bertani, 2001: 294, f. 16, 83-86, 179-180 (Tm from Aphonopelma, Sf).
Vitalius wacketi Peters, 2003: 312, f. 1250-1252, 1258-1260 (mf).
Vitalius wacketi Schmidt, 2003l: 195, f. 555-557 (mf).
References

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: 265-356. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W. (1949a). Em tôrno das três espécies insulares e praianas do gênero Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901 (Mygalomorphae). Memórias do Instituto Butantan 21: 117-135. 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

Bücherl, W., Timotheo da Costa, A. & Lucas, S. (1971). Revisão de alguns tipos de aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha) estabelecidos por Cândido de Mello-Leitão e depositados no Museu Nacional do Rio. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 35: 117-138. 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

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. (1976b). Uma espécie nova de aranha brasileira do gên. Pamphobeteus (Theraphosidae). Revista de Agricultura, Piracicaba 51: 56. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1986). Vogelspinnen: Lebensweise, Bestimmungsschlüssel, Haltung und Zucht. Albrecht Philler, Minden. 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. (1998d). Vitalius vulpinus sp. n., eine neue Vitalius-Spezies aus Nordbrasilien (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 6(5): 1-6. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

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