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Perú and Ecuador

Perú and Ecuador. 19 December 2007 – 14 March 2008. José A. Ochoa. Routes:. ca. 13 600 km. Ecuador: (200 – 3400 m): Amazon rainforest, mountain forest, dry forest, and inter-Andean valleys.

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Perú and Ecuador

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  1. Perú and Ecuador 19 December 2007 – 14 March 2008 José A. Ochoa

  2. Routes: ca. 13 600 km Ecuador: (200 – 3400 m): Amazon rainforest, mountain forest, dry forest, and inter-Andean valleys Perú: (sea level – 4300 m): inter-Andean valleys, coastal desert, dry forests, highland, mountain rainforest and Amazon basin.

  3. 61 scorpion species • Brachistosternus 14 • Orobothriurus 1 • Pachakutej 1 • Tityus 15 • Ananteris 1 • Centruroides 1 • Hadruroides 12 • Chactopsis 1 • Chactas 1 • Teuthraustes 14

  4. Hadruroides Isla Santa Perú: Pacific desert Brachistosternus turpuq Arequipa

  5. Desert in southern Perú: 250 m Our car in the first part of the trip Santa, northern Perú

  6. Hadruroides carinatus Cajamarca Perú: Andes Brachistosternus titicaca Puno

  7. Wari ruins(2470 m, near Ayacucho) Wari was a civilization that flourished in the Andes from about 500 to 1200 A.D. Ayacucho is famous for its large number of churches The fortress of Kuelap was built around 800 A.D. (Chachapoyas culture). Near this site we collected one species of Teuthraustes Pachachaca bridge (2000 m, Apurímac): type locality of Brachistoternus peruvianus

  8. Roberto Gutierrez, José A. Ochoa, Dany Apaza Cajamarca (2800 m, nothrern Perú). Next point: Amazon rainforest We need some vaccines Marañon river, between Cajamarca and Amazonas

  9. Perú: Mountain rainforest Ananteris San Martín Teuthraustes San Martín

  10. Perú: Amazon rainforest Loreto Tityus metuendus Ucayali Chactopsis

  11. Amazon river near to Iquitos The Gocta waterfall (771 m)

  12. Comunidad El Chino, Tahuayo river Travelling many hours in this kind of boat Food delivery

  13. Ecuador: Andes Carchi Teuthraustes Loja Tityus

  14. Hadruroides Catamayo Dry forest in Ecuador San Felipe de Oña Centruroides

  15. Marco Lara, Judith Borja and Arturo Jimenez in Loja Ecuador Laguna Cuicocha (3400 m, northern Ecuador) San Francisco: Quito Ecuador is a beautiful country Riobamba

  16. Ecuador: Amazon Rainforest Tityus Tiputini

  17. Estación Biodiversidad Tiputini. Provincia Orellana, Ecuador

  18. Some little difficulties with the rain

  19. Acknowledgments to: Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales de Perú (INRENA) Ministerio del Ambiente de la Republica del Ecuador Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales Museo de Zoología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Museo de Historia Natural, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito Estación Biodiversidad Tiputini, Universidad San Francisco de Quito Jefatura Parque Nacional Río Abiseo, Perú Jefatura Bosque de Protección Alto Mayo, Perú Help in fieldwork Roberto Gutiérrez, Dany Apaza, Dayvis Huamán, Aarón Quiroz, Juan Carlos Chaparro, Joyce Vitorino Villegas, Guissepe Gagliardi and Cesar Gil Perleche (Perú) Fabian Bersosa, Santiago Villamarín, Vladimir Carbajal, Adrian Troya, Pablo Araujo, Judith Borja, Arturo Jimenez and Marco Lara (Ecuador). Oscar Ochoa Cámara for loan his car

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