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Genus: Vitalius Lucas, Silva & Bertani, 1993 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Vitalius chromatus Schmidt, 2004

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002249

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (39182-84) - (Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023)

Taxonomic References

Vitalius cristatus Baumgarten, 1998: 1, f. 1-3 (m; misidentified per Bertani, 2001: 285 and Schmidt, 2004b: 8)

Vitalius cristatus Peters, 2000b: 131, f. 383, 385 (m; misidentified according to Schmidt, 2004b: 8, figs. of Baumgarten, 1998: 1)

Vitalius cristatus Peters, 2003: 212, f. 855-856 (m; misidentified according to Schmidt, 2004b: 8, figs. of Baumgarten, 1998: 1)

Nhandu chromatus Schmidt, 2004b: 8, f. 1-3, 5 (Dmf) Original description

Nhandu chromatus Peters, 2005b: 86, f. 275-280 (mf)

Vitalius chromatus Bertani, 2023b: 110 (T from Nhandu)

References

Baumgarten, M. (1998). Das Männchen von Vitalius cristatus (Mello-Leitão, 1923) (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 6(12): 1-8. -- 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

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

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

Schmidt, G. (2004b). Der Doppelgänger von Acanthoscurria geniculata (C.L. Koch, 1841) heist Nhandu chromatus sp. n. (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Tarantulas of the World 92: 6-11. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-12-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Bertani, 2023b
2023-12-30	Species transferred to new genus	Bertani, 2023b		Species transferred from Nhandu to Vitalius
2023-12-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Peters, 2003
2023-12-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Peters, 2000b
2023-12-29	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value