Enyalius bibronii Boulenger, 1885

Figs 7.4 and 16

Type locality.

State of Bahia, Brazil.

Distribution.

In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Minas Gerais, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, and Rio Grande do Norte. It is widespread in the Caatinga and occurs along eight ecoregions (Table 1; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (23-1,006 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 20 to 28°C, and average annual rainfall between 495 and 1,580 mm.

Ecological notes.

Semiarboreal and diurnal (Rodrigues et al. 2014). It is typical of forest enclaves in arid environments of the Caatinga and scattered patches of the semiarid (Jackson 1978; Rodrigues et al. 2006). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Coleoptera, Orthoptera and Hemiptera the most representative items (Costa 2015). Oviparous, the female usually lays 7-10 eggs at a time (Lagares 2019).