First record of Vitalius longisternalis Bertani, 2001 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) in Argentina and notes on its natural history in Misiones province

Ferretti, Nelson Edgardo; Copperi, Sofía; Schwerdt‍, Leonela; Pompozzi, Gabriel

doi:10.15560/11.5.1748

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“…Distribution: ARGENTINA: Araucaria forests northeastern of Misiones province (P. longisternalis) and southeastern of Misiones province (P. roseus). BRAZIL: northern of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, where vegetation comprises Subcaducifolious Atlantic Forest with Araucaria angustifolia and patches of "campo" (P. vitiosum), subtropical subcaducifolious forest of states of Paraná and Santa Catarina, west of "Serra do Mar" (P. longisternalis), and subtropical subcaducifolious forest of northwest and central state of Rio Grande do Sui (P. roseus) (Bertani, 2001;Bertani et al, 2011;Ferretti et al, 2014Ferretti et al, , 2015 (Figure 11D).…”

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Phylogenomics of Lasiodoriforms: reclassification of the South American genus Vitalius Lucas, Silva and Bertani and allied genera (Araneae: Theraphosidae)

et al. 2023

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Theraphosinae is the most diverse subfamily of Theraphosidae spiders, but their evolutionary history remains unresolved to date. This problem is common in taxonomic groups with phylogenetic hypotheses that have often been based only on qualitative morphological characters and, rarely, on molecular analyses. Phylogenomics has significantly contributed to the understanding of the evolution of many non-model groups, such as spiders. Herein, we employed ultraconserved elements (UCEs) phylogenomics to propose a new hypothesis for a group of Theraphosinae genera, namely Lasiodoriforms: Vitalius, Lasiodora, Eupalaestrus, Pterinopelma, Proshapalopus, and Nhandu. We propose three genera and their respective morphological diagnoses are provided. Our phylogeny supports the transfer of species from the genus Vitalius to Pterinopelma and Proshapalopus and from Proshapalopus to Eupalaestrus. Finally, we describe a new species of Vitalius from Southern Brazil. Based on these three new generic descriptions and transferred species, the Lasiodoriform tarantulas comprise nine genera from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and the genus Vitalius now includes seven species.

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