Vitisma rasnitsyni was named by Vršanský (1999). Its type specimen is PIN 3064/3522, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 3064, bed 31), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large marl/siltstone in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Vitisma.