The genus Iphisa Gray, 1851 is composed of only one species, Iphisa elegans, distributed in the primary forests of the Amazon Basin of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil, and Guiana Shield – Guyana, Surinam (Castoe et al., 2004). In Brazil, the species is known from Amapá, Pará, Amazonas, Acre, Rondônia and Mato Grosso (Ávila-Pires, 1995; Gainsbury and Colli, 2003; Rodrigues et al., 2005; Macedo, Bernarde and Abe, 2008; Vitt et al., 2008; Ávila-Pires et al., 2009; França and Venâncio, 2010; Ávila and Kawashita-Ribeiro, 2011; Marçal, Gomes and Coragem, 2011; Mendes-Pinto and Souza, 2011; Nunes et al., 2012). However, there are still several gaps in the known distribution (Gray, 1851; Dixon, 1974; Duellman, 1978; Ávila-Pires, 1995; Duellman and Salas, 1991; Hoogmoed and Ávila-Pires, 1991; Vitt et al., 2008). Iphisa elegans is a species with diurnal habits, and tends to forage just below the top layer of leaves covering the forest floor (Vitt et al., 2008).

In the present note we reported new records of I. elegans (Figure 1) for the state of Mato Grosso, in Central Brazil. On 11 October 2011, two adult specimens of I. elegans were collected in the municipality of Tangará

da Serra, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil (14°51’3.78”S, 57°50’11.74”W). The specimens were captured in pitfall traps with drift-fences, installed in forested savanna fragments and riparian forests near the Juba river (collection permit: SUPES/MT 57/2011). The collected specimens were euthanized with injectable anesthetic, fixed in 10% formalin and preserved in alcohol 70%, tissue samples were taken. The specimens were deposited at the Zoological Collection of the Universidade Federal de Goiás (ZUFG), Goiânia, state of Goiás, Brazil (Specimen number: ZUFG 640-641). The I. elegans specimens from Tangará da Serra municipality fully agree with the diagnosis of Gray (1851) and Dixon (1974).

Examination of additional material, previously deposited in the “Coleção Zoológica de Vertebrados da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso” (UFMT; Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil) (see Appendix), allowed us to confirm the presence of I. elegans in ten additional localities in north and southwest from state Mato Grosso: municipalities of Colniza ( Parque Estadual Igarapés do Juruena, 8º54’42”S, 59º04’55”W; Estação Ecológica do Rio Roosevelt, Distrito de Panelas, 8º54’11”S, 60º49’22”W), Apiacás (Parque Nacional do Juruena, 9º04’01”S, 57º52’18”W); UHE Apiacás, 9º12’16”S, 57º05’19”W), Cláudia (Fazenda Continental, 11º27’47”S, 54º59’25”W), Sapezal (PCH Cachoeirão, 12º59’48”S, 58º57’29”W), Comodoro (13º48’56”S, 59º41’11” W), Jauru (PCH Ombreiras, 15º06’59”S, 58º43’59”W), Araputanga (PCH Ombreiras, 15º08’05”S, 58º56’43”W), and Reserva do Cabaçal (15º04’48”S, 58º27’57”W) (Figure 2, Table 1).

The records of I. elegans for the Mato Grosso state extend its geographic distribution in approximately 125 km east and 311 km southeast of their distributions nearest known (Vale de São Domingos, 15º07’00” S, 58º58’00” W, and Juara, 10°25’46” S, 57°38’16” W, respectively). Notwithstanding, the records from

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1 Centro Tecnológico de Engenharia Ltda., Rua 254, 146, Setor Coimbra, 74.535-440, Goiânia, GO, Brazil;

2 Universidade Federal de Goiás, Instituto de Ciências Biológi-cas, Departamento de Ecologia. Rodovia Goiânia-Nerópolis km 5, Campus II, Setor Itatiaia, 74.001-970, Goiânia, GO, Brazil;

3 Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Biociências, Coleção de Vertebrados. Avenida Fernando Corrêa da Costa, Coxipó, 78.060-900, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil;

4 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás - PUC Goiás, Departamento de Biologia. Rua 235, n. 40, Bloco L, Setor Universitário, 74.605-010, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.

*Corresponding author; e-mail: sheilandradevpx@yahoo.com.br

Sheila Pereira de Andrade1,*, Danusy Lopes Santos2, Ricardo Alexandre Kawashita-Ribeiro3 and Wilian Vaz-Silva4

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Figure 1. Iphisa elegans (ZUFG 640) collected in Tangará da Serra municipality, state of Mato Grosso, Central Brazil. Photo by Sheila P. Andrade.

Figure 2. Distribution map of Iphisa elegans in Brazil. Symbols: Star: Type locality; Closed circles: literature records from Brazil (see Table 1 for localities numbers and literature); Open circles: New records in state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

mesoregions North (Sapezal, Comodoro) and Southwest of the Mato Grosso state (Jauru, Araputanga, Reserva do Cabaçal and Tangará da Serra) represent the localities nearest the Cerrado biome.

In addition, the present records might contribute to future studies on the biogeography of this group, as it is inserted in an area tension between biomes (Amazon-

Cerrado). Biogeographic patterns have suggested that transitional regions are characterized by high species richness due to the overlap of their distributional ranges, being composed of inhabitants of adjacent biomes, and also of atypical species (Vitt, 1991; Silva, 1995; New, 2002; Ratter, Bidgewater and Ribeiro, 2003; Vaz-Silva and Andrade, 2009; Oliveira et al., 2010).

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Pará state (PA)

Belém 1 01°27’52” S, 48°29’45” W Gray 1851 (Type locality)

Portel 2 01º57’36” S, 51º36’55” W Ribeiro-Junior et al. 2011

Oriximiná 3 01º30’00” S, 55º50’00” W Nunes et al. 2012

Juriti 4 02°09’09’’S, 56°05’42’’W Prudente et al. 2013

Santarém 5 04°39’55” S, 55°57’10” W Mendes-Pinto and Souza 2011

Trairão 6 04º34’33” S, 55º24’14” W Mendes-Pinto and Souza 2011

Amapá state (AP)

Macapá 7 0°01’32” N, 51° 4’0” W Lima 2008

Mazagão 8 0º01’00” S, 51º42’00” W Nunes et al. 2012

Serra do Navio 9 0°52’00” N, 52°1’32” W Ávila-Pires 1995

Amazonas state (AM)

Barcelos 10 0°58’31” S, 62°55’28” W Neckel-Oliveira and Gordo 2004

Rio Preto da Eva 11 2º20’30” S, 59º12’52” W Ilha and Dixo, 2010

Manaus 12 3°14’12” S, 59°59’26” W Vitt et al. 2008

Autazes 13 4º09’37” S, 60º07’51” W Nunes et al. 2012

Nova Olinda do Norte 14 4º20’39” S, 58º38’06” W Nunes et al. 2012

Anori 15 4°03’00’’S, 61°40’00’’W Waldez, Menin and Vogt 2013

Borba 16 4º54’63” S, 61º06’46” W Nunes et al. 2012

17 5º3’37” S, 60º17’44” W Ávila-Pires 1995

Manicoré 18 5º24’37” S, 60º43’16” W Nunes et al. 2012

19 6º24’00” S, 60º21’00” W Nunes et al. 2012 Novo Aripuanã

20 7º37’01” S, 60º40’54” W Nunes et al. 2012

Jutaí 21 5º29’16” S, 68º48’23” W Nunes et al. 2012

Tabatinga 22 4º13’48” S, 69º56’12” W Ávila-Pires 1995

Benjamin Constant 23 4º23’00” S, 70º1’53” W Ávila-Pires 1995

Boca do Acre 24 9º0’47” S, 67º10’52” W França and Venâncio 2010

Acre state (AC)

Cruzeiro do Sul 25 07°38’23” S, 72°47’43” W Bernarde et al. 2013

26 7º57’20” S, 72º04’37” W Bernarde et al. 2011

Porto Valter 27 8°16’00” S, 72°47’00” W Ávila-Pires et al. 2009

Rondônia state (RO)

28 9º37’38” S, 65º26’46” W Nunes et al. 2012

29 8°45’57” S, 63°54’7” W Marçal et al. 2011

Porto Velho

30 8º10’37” S, 62º 48’63” W Nunes et al. 2012

Candeias do Jamari 31 8º46’54” S, 63º42’48” W Ávila-Pires 1995

Guajará-Mirim 32 10°19’00” S, 64°33’00” W Ávila-Pires et al. 2009

São Francisco do Guaporé 33 11°51’36” S, 63°43’75” W Ávila-Pires 1995

Ariquemes 34 9°55’37” S, 63°4’7” W Ávila-Pires et al. 2009

Cacaulândia 35 10º19’53” S, 63º05’24” W Nunes et al. 2012

Table 1. Localities with records of Iphisa elegans in Brazil, and their respective literature references.

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Acknowledgments. We are grateful to Edmar Pereira Victor-Júnior, Kesley Lemes and Elias Castro Gonzaga for help during the field work. Marcos André de Carvalho for access to material on its care of the UFMT collection. Also thank Darlan Tavares Feitosa for the pre-peer review, critically reading the manuscript, and for confirming the identification of the species. CTE - Centro Tecnológico de Engenharia was the company responsible by biological studies in the basin Juba river in Tangará da Serra

municipality. And R. A. Kawashita-Ribeiro is grateful to the CNPq (Edital MCT/CNPq/MEC/CAPES/FNDCT – Ação Transversal/FAPs nº 40/2010 – SISBIOTA - Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade - BRASIL) (MCT/CNPq/MEC/CAPES/FNDCT – Ação Transversal/FAPs Nº 47/2010 – Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade - SISBIOTA BRASIL), the NIEFA – Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos Faunísticos (FAPEMAT processo 447441/2009) and the CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior).

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Locality Site Geographic Coordinate Literature Cited

Espigão do Oeste 36 11°35’00” S, 60°45’00” W Macedo et al. 2008

Pimenta Bueno 37 11°57’9” S, 60°49’9” W Gainsbury and Colli 2003

Vilhena 38 12º 43’00” S, 60º07’00” W Gainsbury and Colli 2003

Mato Grosso state (MT)

39 8º54’11” S, 60º49’22” W New record Colniza

40 8º54’42” S, 59º04’55” W New record

41 9º04’01” S, 57º52’18” W New record

42 9º34’03” S, 57º21’04” W Nunes et al. 2012

Apiacás

43 9º12’16” S, 57º05’19” W New record

Aripuanã 44 9°16’24” S, 60°37’12” W Rodrigues et al. 2005

Cotriguaçu 45 9º50’10” S, 58º15’09” W Kawashita-Ribeiro et al. 2011

Nova Bandeirantes 46 10º20’48” S, 57º41’21” W Ávila and Kawashita-Ribeiro 2011

Juara 47 10°25’46” S, 57°38’16” W Ávila and Kawashita-Ribeiro 2011

Juruena 48 10º19’53” S, 58º21’32” W Nunes et al. 2012

Cláudia 49 11º27’47”S, 54º59’25” W New record

Sapezal 50 12º59’48” S, 58º57’29” W New record

Comodoro 51 13º48’56” S, 59º41’11” W New record

Vale de São Domingos 52 15º07’00” S, 58º58’00” W Nunes et al. 2012

Jauru 53 15º06’59” S, 58º43’59” W New record

Araputanga 54 15º08’05” S, 58º56’43” W New record

Reserva do Cabaçal 55 15º04’48” S, 58º27’57” W New record

Tangará da Serra 56 14°51’78” S, 57°50’11” W New record

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Appendix

Additional specimens examined.

Iphisa elegans: Mato Grosso: Apiacás – UFMT-R 9399, 7424; Araputanga – UFMT-R 2841, 6253, 6555; Cláudia – UFMT-R 10063, 10073, 10086, 10090; Colniza – UFMT-R 7804, 7842-7843, 7857-7858; Comodoro – UFMT-R 9457, 9465, 9467, 9469, 9472, 9477, 9481- 9482, 9485, 9546, 9557, 9564; Cotriguaçu – UFMT-R 8373; Jauru – UFMT-R 2839, 2842; Juara – UFMT-R 6788; Nova Bandeirantes – UFMT-R 6787; Reserva do Cabaçal – UFMT-R 2626-2627; Sapezal – UFMT-R 7459, 7472, 7497, 7509, 7511; Vale de São Domingos – UFMT-R 860, 865-870, 872, 876-877, 879-880, 882-884, 4131, 5092-5093, 5095, 5097-5102, 5104, 5278-5279, 5282-5288, 5290-5298, 5301-5306, 5309-5313, 5315-5319, 5322-5323, 5326-5333, 5379-5383, 5386-5387, 5389-5390, 5392-5393, 5395-5399, 5401-5403, 5406-5408, 6998-7000, 7002-7003, 7005-7006, 7008, 7010-7013, 7017, 7128-7131, 7133-7140, 7143.

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