In July 2023, we kept exploring the northernmost limit of the Atlantic Forest. This time, our destiny was the Chapada do Araripe, a plateau forming the border of two northeastern states in Brazil: Ceará and Pernambuco. The region is mostly known for the abundant fossils from the early Cretaceous and the Araripe manakin, an endangered species endemic to Chapada do Araripe.
Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil
Team: Junia Carreira, Augusto Rosa and Renato Ramos
Heliconius ricini
Anteros sp.
Soldadinho-do-araripe, the Araripe manakin (Antilophia bokermanni), an endangered species endemic to Araripe plateau
Episcada sp. and Heliconius ricini
Dircenna dero
Macrosoma sp.
Junia, Augusto and Renato sampling moths
Junia, Renato and Augusto
Megalopygidae
Quero-quero, the southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)
Taygetis laches
