v. 1 n. 2 (2017): Pesquisa e Ensino em Ciências Exatas e da Natureza

The photo shows an individual of Tityus serrulatus. This exotic species is found in the Northeast and Central-West regions, being responsible for most of the scorpionic accidents in Brazil. In the municipality of Fortaleza, it is one of the main species that cause accidents, despite the statistics of the Notification of Invalidity Information System (SINAN) not mentioning its occurrence for the State. The proposal of the work of Azevedo et al. is to correlate the SINAN accident data with the geographic distribution of species of health interest in the scientific collections of arachnids, thus delimiting, in fact, which species of health interest occur in the State of Ceará. Photo: Pedro H. Martins.