Tantilla melanocephala (Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “America.”

Distribution. Widespread from Central America (Wallach et al., 2014) and the Lesser Antilles (Wilson et al., 2015), to South America in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago (Plt. 149A). In Brazil, recorded in Amazonia, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, Cerrado, Guianan savannas, Araucaria forest, Pantanal, and Pampas Grasslands (Plt. 149A), from low to high elevations (Plt. 149B). Observed in the field in savanna, grassland (Valdujo et al.,2009),and forest(Martins and Oliveira,1998).