The geographic ranges in Brazil of 4 species of Neriidae are widened. New records are recorded of the following species and Brazilian states: Eoneria blanchardi Aczél, 1951 from Pernambuco and Paraíba, Glyphidops carrerai Aczél, 1961 and Glyphidops filosus (Fabricius, 1805) from Bahia and Paraíba, and Nerius pilifer Fabricius, 1805 from Paraíba. A referential map is included to these species.

<p style="text-align: justify;">Novos registros do raro ascalafídeo <em>Albardia furcata</em> van der Weele, 1903 são fornecidos para o estado da Paraíba, na Caatinga e Mata Atlântica, incluindo quatro novas localidades. Um mapa referencial está incluído para os espécimes registrados. O primeiro relato da mosca predadora <em>Peckia</em> (<em>Sarcodexia</em>) <em>lambens</em> (Wiedemann, 1830) em indivíduos mortos de <em>A. furcata</em> é registrado.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Palavras chave</strong>: Ascalafídeo, Caatinga, Mata Atlântica, Sarcophagidae.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Abstract</strong>: New records of the rare owlfly <em>Albardia furcata</em> van der Weele, 1903 are provided from the state of Paraiba, in the Caatinga and Atlantic Forest, including four new localities. A referential map is included to the recorded specimens. The first report of the predator fly <em>Peckia</em> (<em>Sarcodexia</em>) <em>lambens</em> (Wiedemann, 1830) on dead body of <em>A. furcata</em> is registered.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Key words</strong>: Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, owlfly, Sarcophagidae.</p>

In order to document the Membracidae of an area of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest in Paraíba, four collection methods were employed, distributed in 100 sample units during ten days in November 2014. A total of 1,182 membracids of 27 species were collected. The assemblages were marked with a high dominance, since six species accounted for 80.63% of the total number of individuals captured. Species with more than ten individuals were associated with the three environments of the forest: canopy, understory, and edge. The importance of the four sampling methods in the final membracid composition was evaluated through the Jaccard similarity index and its complement, where the values of complementarity were superior to the values of similarity, suggesting the dissimilarity of assemblages inventoried by each method. The observed richness corresponds to 90.0% and 79.4% of the richness estimated by Chao1 and Chao2. The richness estimated by Chao1 is within the upper limit of the confidence interval (95%) in the last plot of the species accumulation curve, while the richness estimated by Chao2 is above this limit. The additional sampling effort needed to collect 95% of the estimated richness is 969 individuals for Chao1 and 317 sample units for Chao2.