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Herpetological Review 36(3): 327; 2005
© 2005 by Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
PSEUSTES POECILONOTUS and PSEUSTES
SHROPSHIREI (Puffing Snakes). DIET. Pseustes poecilonotus
is known to prey on birds (Falconidae, Emberizidae), bird eggs
(Cracidae), and occasionally on lizards and small mammals (Mar-
tins and Oliveira 1998. Herpetol. Nat. Hist. 6:78–150). There is
not published information regarding Pseustes shropshirei diet. On
9 January 1991 a specimen of P. poecilonotus (Universidad San
Francisco de Quito y Fundación Herpetológica Orcés; FHGO-
USFQ 0192) was collected on the Río Payamino at Pozo Gacela,
Province of Napo, Ecuador, that contained one adult beetle (Co-
leoptera: Scarabeidae), one moth (Lepidoptera), parts of a grass-
hopper (Orthoptera), parts of a bug (Hemiptera), and two legs of a
woodpecker (Piciformes: Picidae). On 25 March 1994 a specimen
of P. shropshirei (FHGO-USFQ 0892) collected at Piñas,
Buenventura, Province of El Oro, Ecuador, contained a capsule of
seeds from an undetermined plant (ca. 2 cm in diameter) and two
white brittle-shelled eggs (ca. 3 cm in diameter) with partially
developed avian embryos.
I thank Jean-Marc Touzet, Ana María Velasco, Daniel Proaño,
María Olga Borja, Ma. Elena and Laura Heredia for assistance.
Submitted by DIEGO F. CISNEROS-HEREDIA, Colegio de
Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de
Quito. Avenida Interoceánica y calle Diego de Robles, Campus
Cumbayá, Edificio Maxwell, Casilla Postal 17-12-841, Quito,
Ecuador (e-mail: diegofrancisco_cisneros@yahoo.com).