Chironius scurrulus (Wagler in Spix, 1824)

Type locality. Rio Japurá, state of Amazonas, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela in Amazonia (Plt. 129A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and its contact areas with the Cerrado (Plt. 129A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 129B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest (Dixon and Soini, 1977; Duellman, 1978; Dixon et al., 1993; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Bernarde and Abe, 2006).