Leptophis ahaetulla (Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. Guyana, according to Hoge and Romano (1966) .

Distribution. Widespread from Central America (Wallach et al., 2014) to most of South America, occurring in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela (Plt. 136A). In Brazil, recorded in all ecoregions except Araucaria Forest and Pampas Grasslands (Plt. 136A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 136B). Observed in the field in forest, including upland forest enclaves in Caatinga, gallery forest in Cerrado, and disturbed areas (Strüssmann and Sazima, 1993; Carvalho and Nogueira, 1998; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Marques, 2001; Giraudo and Scrocchi, 2002; Rodrigues, 2003; Bernarde and Abe, 2006; Martins et al., 2008b; Oliveira-Santos and Leuchtenberger, 2009; Loebmann and Haddad, 2010).