Perú and Ecuador

19 December 2007 – 14 March 2008

José A. Ochoa

Routes:

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.

ca. 13 600 km

61 scorpion species

Brachistosternus 14 Orobothriurus 1 Pachakutej 1 Tityus 15 Ananteris 1 Centruroides 1 Hadruroides 12 Chactopsis 1 Chactas 1 Teuthraustes 14

Perú: Pacific desert

Brachistosternus turpuq

Arequipa

Hadruroides

Isla Santa

Desert in southern Perú: 250 m Our car in the first part of the trip

Santa, northern Perú

Perú: Andes

Brachistosternus titicaca

Puno

Hadruroides carinatus

Cajamarca

Ayacucho is famous for its large number of

churches Wari was a civilization that flourished in the Andes from about 500 to 1200 A.D.

Wari ruins (2470 m, near Ayacucho)

Pachachaca bridge (2000 m, Apurímac): type locality of Brachistoternus peruvianus

The fortress of Kuelap was built around 800 A.D. (Chachapoyas culture). Near this site we collected one species of Teuthraustes

Roberto Gutierrez, José A. Ochoa, Dany Apaza

Marañon river, between Cajamarca and Amazonas

We need some

vaccines

Cajamarca (2800 m, nothrern Perú). Next point: Amazon rainforest

Perú: Mountain rainforest

Ananteris

Teuthraustes

San Martín

San Martín

Perú: Amazon rainforest

Tityus metuendus

Chactopsis

Loreto

Ucayali

Amazon river near to IquitosThe Gocta waterfall (771 m)

Comunidad El Chino, Tahuayo river

Travelling many hours in this kind of boat

Food delivery

Teuthraustes

Carchi

Loja Tityus

Ecuador: Andes

Dry forest in Ecuador

Centruroides

Hadruroides

San Felipe de Oña

Catamayo

Marco Lara, Judith Borja and Arturo Jimenez in Loja Ecuador

Ecuador is a beautiful country

San Francisco: Quito

Riobamba

Laguna Cuicocha (3400 m, northern Ecuador)

Ecuador: Amazon Rainforest

Tityus

Tiputini

Estación Biodiversidad Tiputini. Provincia Orellana, Ecuador

Some little difficulties with

the rain

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