“…The abundance of Gonyleptidae species in the studied areas was expected, as they constitute the most diverse and abundant family in the Atlantic Forest in the southern and southeastern regions of Brazil (Kury, 2003), as observed in other studies in the same biome (Bragagnolo and Pinto-Da-Rocha, 2003;Nogueira et al, 2019;Resende et al, 2012aResende et al, , 2012bFerreira et al, 2019;Ferreira et al, 2020;Costa et al, 2020;Gomes et al, 2021;Andrade et al, 2022;Lima et al, 2022;Pádua et al, 2023). Until then, O. vegetus had been recorded only in the province of Misiones, Argentina (Soares and Soares, 1954;Ringuelet, 1959;Galiano and Maury, 1979;Kury, 2003) (Figure 3), its occurrence reported here may indicate a possible endemism of this species, since they are only found in areas of Semideciduous Forest and Mixed Ombrophilous Forest, which are phytophysiognomies of the Atlantic Forest, the biome with the highest endemism of harvestmen on the planet (Pinto-Da- , which suggests that this species may occur in other phytophysiognomies of the biome in Brazil, or may be endemic to these forest formations (Silva et al, 2015), since the low dispersal capacity of these arachnids (Mestre and Pinto-Da-Rocha, 2004) increase the endemism of the group, as already demonstrated for several species recorded in the Atlantic Forest (Pinto-Da- Silva et al, 2015).…”