This species is 45% complete

Vitalius wacketi (Mello-Leitão, 1923)

Brazil ♂♀

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Taxonomy and History

Scientific Name : Vitalius wacketi

Described By: (Mello-Leitão, 1923)
Researcher Profile: Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão
Genus: Vitalius
Original Type Locality: holotype male from "Raiz da Serra", Sao Paulo, Brazil, MZSP 147, 1900, M. Wacket col.

- Pterinopelma wacketi Mello-Leitão, 1923
- Pamphobeteus insularis Mello-Leitão, 1923
- Pamphobeteus masculus Piza, 1939
- Pamphobeteus platyomma Bücherl, 1949
- Pamphobeteus platyomma Bücherl, 1957
- Pterinopelma wacketi Bücherl, Timotheo & Lucas, 1971
- Pamphobeteus litoralis Piza, 1976
- Pamphobeteus platyomma Schmidt, 1986
- Vitalius platyomma Schmidt, 1993
- Aphonopelma wacketi Schmidt, 1997
- Vitalius platyomma Schmidt, 1997
- Vitalius platyomma Schmidt, 1998
- Vitalius platyomma Peters, 2000
- Vitalius wacketi Bertani, 2001

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Theraphosideas do Brasil

Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão ,1923

Rev. Mus. Paulista 13: 1-438 [p. 306, f. 51-55, 167]
- Acanthoscurria gomesiana, Phormictopus ribeiroi, Vitalius wacketi, Vitalius vellutinus, Vitalius roseus, Vitalius dubius, Sericopelma fallax, Proshapalopus anomalus, Plesiopelma rectimanum, Plesiopelma insulare, Lasiodora sternalis, Acanthoscurria juruenicola, Lasiodora cristata, Homoeomma montanum, Dolichothele exilis, Eupalaestrus spinosissimus, Cyclosternum garbei, Avicularia juruensis, Acanthoscurria rhodothele, Acanthoscurria paulensis, Vitalius sorocabae

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