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ERYTHROLAMPRUS 



Erythrolamprus aesculap i i tetrazona Jan 



I863 [ Erythrolamprus Aesculap! i ] tetrazona Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis., 2: 315. Type-locality: 



Bol i V ia, 

 19S6 Erythrolamprus aesculap! i tetrazona — Mertens, Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Syst. Oekol. Geog. 



T!ere, 84: $44, pi. 14, fig. 38. 



Distribution: Southwestern Bolivia. 



Erythrolamprus aesculap i i venust i ss i mus (Wied) 



1821 Coluber venust i ss imus Wied, Reise nach Brasilien, 2: 75. Type-locality: None given. 

 1545 Erythrolamprus aesculap i i venust i ssima — Machado, Bol. Inst. Vital Brazil, 5= 77- 



Distribution: Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to eastern Bolivia^ Misiones, Argentina. 



ERYTHROLAMPRUS BAUPERTHUISI I Dumeril. Bibron and Dumeril 



I854 Erythrolamprus Bauperthuis i i Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., 7' ^5". Type-locality: 



"C8te ferme"; restricted by Hoge and Lancini, Bol. Mus. Cien. Nat, Caracas, 6-7> 1960> 6l> to 

 vicinity of Cumana, Estado Sucre, Venezuela. 



1959 Erythrolamprus ba i ley i Roze, Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 2: $26, fig. 1. Type-locality: Caripito, 

 Estado Monagas, Venezuela. 



Distribution: Monagas, Sucre, Bolfvar, and Territorio Federal Delta Amacuro, Venezuela. 



ERYTHROLAMPRUS B I ZONA Jan 



I863 [ Erythrolamprus Aesculapii j b izona Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis., 2: 31*- Type-locality: "Bahia, 

 Messico, Popayan, Cayenne, Brasile, Montevideo, Colombia"; restricted to Colombia, by Dunn and 

 Bailey, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 86, 1939, 12. 



1939 Erythrolamprus b i zona — Dunn and Bailey, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 86: 12. 



Distribution: Costa Rica to Colombia and northern Venezuela. 

 ERYTHROLAMPRUS GUENTHERI Garman 



1883 Erythrolamprus quenther i Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 8 (3): 15*» Type-locality: "Mexico?" 

 (based on Erythrolamprus venust iss imus var. D., Gunther, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 1848, 48). 



Distribution: Amazonian slopes of Ecuador. 



ERYTHROLAMPRUS Ml MUS (Cope) 



1868 Opheomorphus m imus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868: JO]. Type-locality: "High regions 



of Ecuador or New Grenada". 



1939 Erythrolamprus m imus — Dunn and Bailey, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 86: 12. 



Distribution: Honduras and Nicaragua to Peru and Ecuador. 



Content: Three subspecies. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Black collar covering posterior tips of 1. Collar negro cubriendo porcion posterior de 



parietals and at least three scales on parietales y por lo menos tres escamas 



midline of neck 2 medialmente en la nuca 2 



Black collar either absent, represented by Collar negro ausente, representado por pun- 

 spots, or only about one scale wide on tos o solo de una escama de ancho medial- 

 midline, diverging to about three scales mente, divergiendo aprox imadamente tres 

 on sides of neck m imus escamas en los lados de la nuca m imus 



