Erythrolamprus poecilogyrus (Wied, 1825)

Type locality. Barra do Jucu, Vila Velha, state of Espírito Santo, Brazil .

Distribution. Found in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela, mainly at the South American open diagonal (Plt. 381A). In Brazil, widespread in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Caatinga, Pampas grasslands, and Pantanal, with scattered records in Amazonia and Guianan savannas (Plt. 381A), from low to high elevations (Plt. 381B). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in open grassland, gallery forest, dry forest, wetland, and disturbed areas (FranÇa and Araújo, 2006; Martins et al., 2008b; Sawaya et al., 2008; Loebmann and Haddad, 2010).