“…Brazil is a hotspot for arboviral diseases, mainly due to its constellation of biodiverse ecotypes, which include: (a) the Amazon basin, encompassing the largest rainforest in the world [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ], (b) the Atlantic forest, with the largest biodiversity and extending as far south and inland as Argentina and Paraguay [ 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ], (c) the Pantanal, considered to be the largest wetland globally [ 6 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 ], and (d) the Cerrado, a vast region of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil [ 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 ].…”