Mesaphorura amazonica Oliveira & Thibaud, 1992

Records from Rio de Janeiro State: Restinga de Itaipuaçu (22°55’16”S; 42°32’49”W), sand dunes and flooded areas (Fernandes & Mendonça 2004); Restinga de Maricá (22°57’50”S; 42°50’44”W), halophyte–psammophyte veg- etation and foredune vegetation (Fernandes & Mendonça 2007); Restinga da Marambaia (23°02’37”S; 43°35’47”W), guriri vegetation and dunes vegetation (Silveira 2014); Itatiaia National Park (22°22’46”S; 44°41’29”W), soil and leaf litter of highlands grasslands (Queiroz 2014).

Occurrence in Brazil: endemic species, Amazonas, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro .