Notes on Mitobatinae III: a remarkable new Brazilian species of Mitobates Sund., 1833 (Opiliones, Laniatores, Gonyleptidae)

Abstract

Mitobates inermis n. sp. is described from Rio de Janeiro state (Southeastern Brazil). Unlike most mitobatines the individuals of this species lack the paired spines in the area III of the mesotergum. Owing to this character, the species, following the Roewerian system, should be put in a new genus, nearest to Léptocnema C.L . Koch,1839, but in the phylogenetic approach adopted here it is placed nearest to Mitobates conspersus (Perty, 1833).