Androdeloscia silvatica (Lemos de Castro and Souza, 1986)

28. Androdeloscia silvatica (Lemos de Castro and Souza, 1986) View in CoL

Prosekia silvatica Lemos de Castro and Souza, 1986: 432 View in CoL , figs. 1–12. – Souza-Kury, 1998: 662. – Leistikow and Wägele, 1999: 22.

Androdeloscia silvatica View in CoL – Leistikow, 1999: 838. – Leistikow, 2001a: 112. – Leistikow, 2001b: 6, Tab. 1. – Schmalfuss, 2003: 18. – Schmidt and Leistikow, 2005: 117, figs. 5, 6, 37. – Souza and Grangeiro, 2006: 35, figs. 1, 2, 4. – Grangeiro and Christoffersen, 2010: 80. – López-Orozco et al., 2016: 21.

Distribution. Endemic to the Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazon ( Schmidt, 2007). In Brazil, this species is recorded from the states of Amazonas and Ceará (Lemos de Castro and Souza, 1986; Souza and Grangeiro, 2006). The state of Ceará is inserted into the Chacoan subregion (sensu Morrone 2014), and the Caatinga is the most expressive biome of the state ( Oliveira et al., 2012).However, A. silvatica was recorded from a ‘brejo’ forest in the Araripe Plateou (Souza and Grangeiro, 2006), a historical bridge between the Amazon and Atlantic forests ( Costa, 2003). According to Souza and Grangeiro (2006), this species represents a relict of an ancient connection between the Amazon and Atlantic forests, when the central portion of Brazil was covered by rain forests due to the moister conditions (see also Costa, 2003; Ledo and Colli, 2017).