Check List 15(5): 933-936, doi: 10.15560/15.5.933
First record of Anelosimus jucundus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) (Araneae, Theridiidae) in the state of Ceará, Brazil
expand article infoJober Fernando Sobczak‡, Jullyana Cristina Moura Sobczak§, Diego Pádua|, Emily Oliveira Fonseca‡, Francisco Ageu de Sousa Nobrega‡, Joedson Castro Pires‡, Marcio Lopes Faustino‡, German Antonio Villanueva-Bonilla
‡ Universidade Federal da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira, Redenção, Brazil§ Universidade Federal da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira , Redenção, Brazil| Programa de Pós-Graduaçao em Entomologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, André Araújo, Manaus, Brazil¶ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Corresponding author: Jober Fernando Sobczak ( jobczak@unilab.edu.br )

Academic editor: Gustavo Silva de Miranda
© Jober Fernando Sobczak, Jullyana Cristina Moura Sobczak, Diego Pádua, Emily Oliveira Fonseca, Francisco Ageu de Sousa Nobrega, Joedson Castro Pires, Marcio Lopes Faustino, German Antonio Villanueva-Bonilla.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
Citation: Sobczak JF, Sobczak JCM, Padua D, Fonseca EO, Nóbrega FAS, Pires JC, Faustino ML, Villanueva-Bonilla GA (2019) First record of Anelosimus jucundus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) (Araneae, Theridiidae) in the state of Ceará, Brazil. Check List 15(5): 933-936. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.5.933
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Abstract
We present the first record for Anelosimus jucundus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 for the state of Ceará, Brazil. We collected 22 individuals in three different ecosystems: (1) Mangrove swamps, (2) Caatinga-type desert vegetation, and (3) Montane semi-deciduous tropical forest. We corrected the misinformation of Levi's 1963 Ceará record, was actually from the state of Pernambuco. Anelosimus jucundus presents a wide altitudinal distribution, which indicates that this species can tolerate a variety climatic conditions and can colonize a variety of sites with different vegetation.
Keywords
Caatinga ecosystem, cobweb spiders, mangrove swamps, social spider