Brazilian Green Racer

Philodryas aestiva (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854)

A roadkill individual (Fig. 19) was photographed by JM at Compañía Solalinde, Coronel Maciel (26°10’26.5”S 56°25’32.4”W), Caazapá department on 9 March 2024 and is the first departmental record (Cacciali et al., 2016b). The species is considered to be of “Least Concern” in Paraguay (Martínez et al., 2020c), however its known distribution is associated with the threatened Atlantic Forest ecoregion, with previous specimen reports from Caaguazú, Canindeyú, Guairá and Itapúa (Cacciali et al., 2016b).