Vitalius is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described by S. Lucas, P. I. da Silva Jr. & Rogério Bertani in 1993.[2]
| Vitalius | |
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| Vitalius wacketi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Vitalius Lucas, Silva & Bertani, 1993[1] |
| Type species | |
| V. sorocabae (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
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Diagnosis
editThey can be distinguished from other tarantulas by the lack of stridulating hairs on the prolateral side of coxa 1 and in the palpal bulb. By the absence of scopula on the side of femur 1, and metatarsus 1 closing between the male spur branches.[3]
Species
editAs of December 2023[update] it contains eleven species, found in Argentina and Brazil:[1]
- Vitalius australis Galleti-Lima, Hamilton, Borges & Guadanucci, 2023 – Brazil
- Vitalius buecherli Bertani, 2001 – Brazil
- Vitalius chromatus (Schmidt, 2004) – Brazil
- Vitalius dubius (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
- Vitalius lucasae Bertani, 2001 – Brazil
- Vitalius nondescriptus (Mello-Leitão, 1926) – Brazil
- Vitalius paranaensis Bertani, 2001 – Brazil, Argentina
- Vitalius restinga Bertani, 2023 – Brazil
- Vitalius sapiranga Bertani, 2023 – Brazil
- Vitalius sorocabae (Mello-Leitão, 1923) (type) – Brazil
- Vitalius vellutinus (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
- Vitalius wacketi – Brazil
- V. cephalopheus (Piza, 1944) = Vitalius vellutinus (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- V. cesteri (Mello-Leitão, 1923) = Vitalius dubius (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- V. communis (Piza, 1939) = Vitalius dubius (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- V. cucullatus (Mello-Leitão, 1923) = Vitalius dubius (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- V. exsul (Mello-Leitão, 1923) = Vitalius dubius (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- V. melanocephalus (Mello-Leitão, 1923) = Vitalius sorocabae (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- V. melloleitaoi = Vitalius nondescriptus (Mello-Leitão, 1926)
- V. mus (Piza, 1944) = Vitalius dubius (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- V. piracicabensis (Piza, 1933) = Vitalius dubius (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- V. sylviae (Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023) = Vitalius sorocabae (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- V. urbanicola (Soares, 1941) = Vitalius dubius (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- V. ypiranguensis (Soares, 1941) = Vitalius dubius (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
- V. platyomma (Mello-Leitão, 1923 - Brazil
- V. rondoniensis (Mello-Leitão, 1923 - Brazil
- V. tetracanthus (Mello-Leitão, 1923 - Brazil
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2023). "Gen. Vitalius Lucas, Silva & Bertani, 1993". World Spider Catalog Version 24.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ Lucas, Sylvia; Silva Jr., Pedro Ismael da; Bertani, Rogério (1993). "Vitalius a new genus of the subfamily Theraphosinae Thorell, 1870 from Brazil (Araneae, Theraphosidae)". Spixiana. 16: 241–245.
- ^ Bertani, Rogério (2001-04-20). "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 (inactive 1 November 2024). ISSN 2176-7793.
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External links
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