Lygophis paucidens Hoge, 1953

Type locality. Village of Mato Verde, near Ilha do Bananal. Currently Luciara, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Brazil and Paraguay, at the central portion of the South American open diagonal (Plt. 395A). In Brazil, recorded in Cerrado and marginally in Caatinga (Plt. 395A), mostly at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 395B). Previous map and taxonomy in Dixon (1989). Observed in the field in savanna or grasslands on sandy soils (Recoder and Nogueira, 2007; Recoder et al., 2011; Rodrigues and Prudente, 2011).