ALTITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION OF SCORPIONES, PSEUDOSCORPIONES, SOLIFUGAE AND OPILIONES (ARTHROPODA: ARACHNIDA) IN THE AMBATO DEPARTMENT, CATAMARCA

ALEXIS E. BARRIOS MONTIVERO; FRANCO L. MORALES; SALAS LILIANA B

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Jornada; TUCUMAN BIOLOGY ASSOCIATION XXXVIII ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING; 2022

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ALTITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION OF SCORPIONES, PSEUDOSCORPIONES, SOLIFUGAE ANDOPILIONES (ARTHROPODA: ARACHNIDA) IN THE AMBATO DEPARTMENT, CATAMARCABarrios Montivero AE, Morales FM, Salas LBBiodiversity Center. Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences UNCA. E-mail: alexisbarrios305@gmail.comScorpions, pseudoscopions, solifugae, and opilions (Arthropoda: Arachnida), have not been very studied in Catamarca. The aims of thisresearch were to know the altitudinal distribution of the orders Scorpionida, Pseudoscorpionida, Solifugae, and Opilionida, in Ambato, Catamarca and produce a distribution map. The organisms were collected in La Puerta (LP), Las Juntas (LJ), Los Varela (LV), and El Rodeo (ER), in an altitudinal range of 910–1,464 meters above sea level. The collection was carried out on two transects (50 m x 20m), placing 10 pitfall traps, active for 28 days. The distribution map was developed with QGIS software. In LP (910–913 masl; N = 138), Scorpions: Brachistosternus, Timogenes, Bothriurus (Bothriuridae), and Tityus confluens (Buthidae); Pseudoscorpions: Atemnidae, Cheliferidae, Lechytiidae, and Chernetidae; Solifugae: Mummuciidae, were collected. In LV (1,191 masl; N = 31), Pseudoscorpions: Cheliferidae, Chernetidae, and Atemnidae, were collected. In ER (1,255–1,308 masl; N = 54), Pseudoscorpions: Cheliferidae andWithiidae, and Opilions: Discocyrtus prospicuus (Gonyleptidae) and Metalibitia (Cosmetidae), were collected. In LJ (1,464 masl; N = 5),