Apostolepis dimidiata ( Jan, 1862 )

Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1), pp. 1-274 : 30

Apostolepis dimidiata ( Jan, 1862)

Type locality. Brazil .

Distribution. Known from southeastern South America in Brazil, Paraguay, and eastern Argentina ( Plt. 238A ). In Brazil, recorded in the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest, with marginal records in the Chaco and Pantanal ( Plt. 238A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevation ( Plt. 238A ). Observed in the field in open savanna and disturbed areas ( Sawaya et al., 2008).

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Plate 238. Distribution map of Apostolepis dimidiata in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.