Protalaridris aculeata

This is the only Protalaridris species to occur outside of premontane and montane rainforest, being found in a lowland site of the Amazon basin relatively close to the Andes. It represents the southernmost known limits of the distribution range for the genus, being separated by a gap of close to 1500 km from the closest known Protalaridris species from southern Ecuador. The single known specimen of this species was collected from a fruit fall berlesate under a Buchenavia tree, a genus within the family Combretaceae with several species known from the Amazonian forest.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Peru.

Nomenclature

 *  aculeata. Protalaridris aculeata Lattke & Alpert, in Lattke et al., 2018: 272, figs. 2a-d (w.) PERU.