Check List 11(5): e19347, doi: 10.15560/11.5.1748
First record of Vitalius longisternalis Bertani, 2001 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) in Argentina and notes on its natural history in Misiones province
expand article infoNelson Ferretti‡, Sofía Copperi§, Leonela Schwerdt|, Gabriel Pompozzi§
‡ Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores CEPAVE (CCT- CONICET- La Plata) (UNLP), Av. 120 s/n e/61 y 62, (1900) La Plata, Argentina, Argentina§ Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur (INBIOSUR), (CONICET, Bahía Blanca), Argentina| Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida (CERZOS-CONICET), Argentina

Corresponding author: Nelson Ferretti ( nferretti@conicet.gov.ar )

© 2017 Nelson Ferretti, Sofía Copperi, Leonela Schwerdt, Gabriel Pompozzi.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Ferretti N, Schwerdt L, Copperi S, Pompozzi G (2015) First record of Vitalius longisternalis Bertani, 2001 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) in Argentina and notes on its natural history in Misiones province. Check List 11(5): 1748. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.5.1748
Open Access
Abstract
This is the first record for the tarantula Vitalius longisternalis Bertani, 2001 in Parana and Araucaria Forests, Misiones province, northeastern Argentina. Specimens were found at Iguazú National Park and Urugua-í Wildlife Reserve. Data on its natural history is provided.Tarantula, Parana, Araucaria Forest, distribution extension
Keywords
Tarantula; Parana; Araucaria Forest; distribution extension