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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DustyD" data-source="post: 216895" data-attributes="member: 36911">[ATTACH]67705[/ATTACH]Second T in as many days. It has been a while for them. Here is my G. rosea  ( apparantly as of  fairly recently G. porteri is being considered  junior synonymous to G. rosea, which I take to mean that in the wild they are considered the same) captive ones, who knows..."At present a formal diagnosis for G. porteri is not available in the literature, but no differences are found when comparing the type of G. porteri with G rosea neotype, so we consider G. porteri a junior synonym of G. rosea."Cut and pasted from a section of REVISED TAXONOMIC PLACEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION UPDATE OF GRAMMOSTOLA SIMON, 1892, PHRIXOTRICHUS SIMON, 1889 AND THRIXOPELMA SCHMIDT, 1994 SPECIES, A CHAOTIC HISTORY OF CHILEAN TARANTULAS (ARANEAE, THERAPHOSIDAE)Milenko A. Aguilera1 , Rubén Montenegro 2 & María E. Casanueva3</blockquote>