Vitalius

Short description: Genus of spiders

Vitalius

Vitalius wacketi
Scientific classification
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)

Species

11, see text

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]

## Contents

* 1 Diagnosis
* 2 Species
* 2.1 In Synonymy
* 2.2 Nomina dubia
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Diagnosis

They 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

(As of December 2023) 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

### In Synonymy

* 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)

### Nomina dubia

* V. platyomma (Mello-Leitão, 1923 \- Brazil
* V. rondoniensis (Mello-Leitão, 1923 \- Brazil
* V. tetracanthus (Mello-Leitão, 1923 \- Brazil

## See also

* List of Theraphosidae species

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2023). Gen. Vitalius Lucas, Silva & Bertani, 1993. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3439. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
2. ↑ 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/65898.
3. ↑ 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. ISSN 2176-7793. https://www.revistas.usp.br/azmz/article/view/12020.

## External links

Wikidata ☰ Q737281 entry

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