Taeniophallus occipitalis (Jan, 1863)

Type locality. State of Bahia, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, mostly along the South American open diagonal (Plt. 223A). In Brazil, recorded in all ecoregions south of the Amazon River, being widespread in the Cerrado and Pampas Grasslands and their contacts with Atlantic Forest, Pantanal, and Caatinga, including scattered records in Amazonia (Plt. 223A), from low to high elevations (Plt. 223B). Observed in the field in secondary forest, savanna, coastal dunes (restinga), and disturbed areas (Santos et al., 2008; FranÇa et al., 2012; Serrano et al., 2019).