Liotyphlops ternetzii (Boulenger, 1896)

Type locality. Paraguay .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay at the southern portion of the South American open diagonal (Plt. 30A). In Brazil, widespread in the Cerrado, with marginal records in Amazonia, Atlantic Forest, Pampas Grasslands, and Chiquitano Dry Forest (Plt. 30A) from low to high elevations (Plt. 30B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon and Kofron (1983). Observed in the field in open areas and gallery forest in Cerrado (Nogueira et al., 2010, 2011).