Epictia vellardi ( Laurent, 1984 )

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Epictia vellardi ( Laurent, 1984)

Type locality. Ciudad de Formosa , province of Formosa, Argentina .

Distribution. Recorded in Argentina, Brazil,and Paraguay in the southern portion of the South American open diagonal ( Plt. 14A ). In Brazil, known from only two records in the Amolar and Urucum massifs of the Pantanal ( Plt. 14A ) at intermediate to low elevations ( Plt. 14B ). Observed in the field in dry forest and wetland ( Cacciali et al., 2016).

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Plate 14. Distribution map of Epictia vellardi in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.