Philodryas nattereri Steindachner, 1870

Type locality. State of Mato Grosso, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Brazil and Paraguay, along the northern part of the South American open diagonal (Plt. 303A). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado, Caatinga, and Chiquitano Dry Forest, with marginal records in Amazonia (Plt. 303A), mostly at intermediate elevations (Plt. 303B). Observed in the field in savanna, grassland, dry vegetation, and disturbed areas (Carvalho and Nogueira, 1998; Carvalho and Vilar, 2005; Hartmann and Marques, 2005; Recoder and Nogueira, 2007; Loebmann and Haddad, 2010).