Apostolepis polylepis (Amaral, 1922)

Type locality. Village of Engenheiro Dodt, currently Santa Filomena, state of Piauí, Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 251A), restricted to the northeastern portion of the Cerrado (Plt. 251A) at low to intermediate elevations (Plt. 251B). Observed in the field in open savanna and grassland on sandy soils (Nogueira et al., 2011; Recoder et al., 2011).