Abstract
The order Opiliones is the third most numerous class within Arachnida, posessing more than 6500 described species and it is highly endemic from the Atlantic rainforest. More specifically, in the south region of Bahia state, in the Atlantic rainsforest, there are, at least, 13 endemic species of this order (Souza, 2013). Within the family Gonyleptidae (Laniatores), there is a subfamily nam…