“…Xenopholis scalaris (Wucherer, 1861) has a wide distribution in the Amazon Forest, in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, in the states of Amazonas, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, with occurrences in the Atlantic Forest in the southern region of the state of Bahia, and in the states of Pernambuco, Alagoas, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It inhabits primary and secondary forests in humid environments (Ringler et al, 2010, Vieira et al, 2012, Powell et al, 2016, França et al, 2019, Gomes et al, 2020 and shows an opisthoglyph dentition. This species is found mainly in the leaf litter on the ground (Ringler et al, 2010;Mendes et al, 2013) where it forages mainly during the night (Ringler et al, 2010).…”