Philodryadini Cope, 1886

Waltrick, Camilla Spengler & Giasson, Luís Olímpio Menta, 2021, Taxonomic key to the snakes (Squamata: Ophidia) species of the Itajaí Valley, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 61, pp. 1-15 : 6

Tribe Philodryadini Cope, 1886

Zaher et al. (2009) designed a putative synapomorphy for this tribe, that the body of the hemipenis is bigger than the lobes, with the non-sulcated face covered almost entirely by two lines of enlarged chalices. In the Itajaí Valley, Philodryas is the only genus from this tribe (Bérnils et al., 2001). The species are recognized by their slender body, round pupil, posterior reduction of dorsal scales rows, and opistoglyphous dentition ( Vanzolini, 1980; Quintela & Loebmann, 2009).