ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELS BY TITYUS SERRULATUS LUTZ & MELLO, 1922 AND TITYUS STIGMURUS (THORELL, 1876) (ARACHNIDA: SCORPIONES)

Abstract

Scorpions are venomous animals with excessive plasticity and may function fashions for biogeographical, pure historical past, and evolutionary research. Ecological area of interest modeling may help in understanding important traits of the geographic distribution of species, in addition to permitting the prediction of future distribution patterns. Our goal was to mannequin the ecological area of interest of the scorpion species *Tityus serrulatus * and *Tityus stigmurus* , in addition to to establish the variables that affect their distribution in several biomes and their vary limits within the Amazon, Caatinga, and Cerrado biomes. Information had been obtained from 12 Brazilian arachnological collections. Bioclimatic variables had been obtained from the WorldClim database, and area of interest modeling was applied utilizing the Most Entropy algorithm. The outcomes confirmed that the Atlantic Forest biome influences the distribution of the species and is the one biome that presents an overlap in distribution between *T. serrulatus* and *T. stigmurus *. For T. serrulatus , an important variable was the common annual temperature, which is mostly excessive. For T. stigmurus , temperature variation had a higher affect. The temperature limits differ between the species: T. serrulatus apparently doesn’t tolerate excessive temperatures, whereas T. stigmurus suffers from fixed temperature variations.

da Silva, C. de OA, Brazil, TK, & da Silva, RML (2026). ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELS BY TITYUS SERRULATUS LUTZ & MELLO, 1922 AND TITYUS STIGMURUS (THORELL, 1876) (ARACHNIDA: SCORPIONES). Revista De Geopolitics , 17 (5), e2453. https://doi.org/10.56238/revgeov17n5-093