Chironius multiventris Schmidt and Walter, 1943

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Chironius multiventris Schmidt and Walter, 1943

Type locality. Río Madre de Diós , departamento Madre de Diós, Peru .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, mostly in Amazonia ( Plt. 127A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and also in Guianan savannas ( Plt. 127A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 127B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993). Observed in the field in primary forest ( Dixon et al., 1993; Bernarde and Abe, 2006; Martins et al., 2008a).

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Plate 127. Distribution map of Chironius multiventris in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.