Is it now G. porteri?

OK.. SO I have heard alot of talking about the G. rosea now being called the G. porteri..

Has it been confirmed? Is that the now new name of the G. rosea?

They're still 2 distinct species. What I'm not sure of is if a certain color form of G. rosea is now G. porteri. They show in Platnicks as two separate species, both in Chile.

From my understanding the typical G. rosea is G. porteri now and the G. rosea RCF is the true G. rosea.

but I could be wrong.

Some things to note:

• There is no such thing as Grammostola cala. Grammostola cala is the old name for Grammostola rosea.
• Grammostola poteri was never Grammostola rosea. G.poteri was always it's own species.
• Grammostola rosea RCF is still referred to as Grammostola rosea RCF.

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Here is the taxonomic classification for both Grammostola rosea and Grammostola porteri.


Grammostola rosea

Grammostola rosea was identified as:
Grammostola rosea by Walckenaer, 1837
Mygale rubiginosa by Nicolet, 1849
Lasiodora rosea by C. L. Koch, 1850
Eurypelma rosea by Ausserer, 1871
Eurypelma spatulatum by F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1897
Citharoscelus kochii by F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1899
Citharoscelus kochii by Pocock, 1899
Citharoscelus spatulatus by Pocock, 1903
Grammostola spatulata by Simon, 1903
Grammostola argentinense by Strand, 1907
Grammostola cala by Chamberlin, 1917
Grammostola spatulata by B�cherl, 1951
Grammostola spatulata by B�cherl, 1951
Grammostola spatulata by Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1961
Grammostola cala by Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1961
Grammostola spathulata by Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1962
Grammostola spathulata by Legendre & Calder�n, 1984
Grammostola cala by Legendre & Calder�n, 1984
Grammostola cala by Smith, 1986
Grammostola spatulatus by Smith, 1986
Grammostola cala by Smith, 1987
Grammostola spatulatus by Smith, 1987
Grammostola spatulata by Hancock & Hancock, 1989
Grammostola spatulata by Smith, 1990
Grammostola spatulata by Schmidt, 1992
Grammostola cala by Schmidt, 1993
Grammostola spatulata by Schmidt, 1993
Grammostola argentinensis by Schmidt, 1993
Grammostola rosea by Schmidt, 1996
Grammostola cala by Schmidt, 1997
Grammostola rosea by Schmidt, 1997
Grammostola rosea by Schmidt, 1998
Grammostola rosea by Vol, 1999
Grammostola cala by Peters, 2000 <---It ceased being referred to as cala in 2000
Grammostola rosea by Peters, 2000
Grammostola rosea by Schmidt, 2003
Grammostola rosea by Peters, 2003
Grammostola rosea by Peters, 2005


Grammostola porteri

Grammostola porteri was identified as:
Lasiodora porteri by Mello-Leitão, 1936
Grammostola porteri by Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1979 <----Was removed from Lasiodora in 1979

Actually, G. cala was synonymised with G. rosea in 1998 by Schmidt:

• Schmidt, G. 1998i. Die chilenischen Vogelspinnen der Gattungen Grammostola Simon, 1892, Paraphysa Simon, 1892, Euathlus Ausserer, 1875 und Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae) mit Beschreibung einer neuen Thrixoplema-Spezies. Arthropoda 6(1): 3-10. [I don't have this.]

You can know this by checking out the "In synonymy" list above the species list and below "Gen. Grammostola Simon, 1892":

G. cala Chamberlin, 1917 = G. rosea (Walckenaer, 1837) (Schmidt, 1998i: 6).

The last (bold) part is the author (Schmidt), publication (1998i) and page (6th page) where the synonymy was established. You can get the titles of the publication from the Bibliography page.

The synonymy list and the species entry tells us what are the junior synonyms of G. rosea (Citharoscelus is also a junior synonym of Grammostola):

• G. argentinensis Strand, 1907
• G. cala Chamberlin, 1917
• G. spatulata (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1897)
• Mygale rubiginosa Nicolet, 1849
• Citharoscelus kochii F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1899

Ok.. So there is no papers confirming the name change.. I just wanted to make sure.. Thanks for the help..

And now im curious if the holotype of G.porteri Mello-Leitão, 1936 was in the butantan institute or not..., does anyone know where this type is/was deposited? If it was instituto butantan, then it's almost certainly gone.

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