Taxon classification Animalia Opiliones Gonyleptidae

Mitobatula sp. 1 Figure 4C

Previously known distribution of Mitobatula castanea Roewer, 1931

(the genus is monospecific). Santa Catarina: Serra Azul (Roewer 1931); Rio de Janeiro: Teresópolis (Kury 2003).

Examined material.

Alagoa: 1 male (MNRJ 2374) from Mina da Companhia (7), 01/XI/2008; 1 male (MNRJ 2342) from Túnel do Garrafão (15), 31/X/2008, new record for state and locality.

Individuals of this morphospecies were sparsely distributed in the photic and aphotic zones at a maximum distance of 12 m from the entrance. The record at Alagoa expands the distribution of the genus with about 150 km from the west of Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro state.