Between May and June 2024, we explored the nothern limits of Atlantic Forest, this time in Piauí State. The vegetation resemble the Brazilian Caatinga dry forest, but we can still find Atlantic Forest plant species in humid areas surrounded by the canyons. After the rainy season, everything looked brightly green and the landscape was breathtaking.
Simeão Moraes, Augusto Rosa and Renato Ramos posing in front of the stone arch “Pedra Furada” at the Serra da Capivara National Park.
The Atlantic Forest persists in the canyons of Serra da Capivara
Emesis sp.
Callicore sorana
Euptoieta hegesia
Pharneuptychia sp.
Hamadryas februa
Hesperiidae
Strymon astiocha
America’s oldest art in the rocks of Serra da Capivara, from at least 12,500 years ago
Campephilus melanoleucos
The Brazilian endemic rodent “mocó” (Kerodon rupestris)
Americerura sp.
Light trap ready!
Complex Parasa schausi sp.
Geometridae
Pinning Microlepidoptera
Serra das Confusões National Park
Team: Simeão, Renato and Augusto
Catagramma pygas
Episcada hymenaea
Catagramma pygas
Eunica tatila
Panapaná
Taygetina kerea
Galbula ruficauda
The art of camouflage
Stunning colors of Glaucomastix venetacauda
Caninana (Spilotes pullatus)
Arctiinae
Light trap ready!
Wonderful Geometridae
Epipleminae
Thoscora rufa
Saturniidae
Heteronotus, a very distinguished Membracidae
Tropidacris collaris
Jaguajir agamemnon
Bye bye, Piauí! õ/
