Mastigodryas boddaerti (Sentzen, 1796)

(Figs. 12.4 and 25.2)

It was recorded only in states of Piauí (Sete Cidades National Park) and Ceará (Ibiapaba-Araripe Plateau). Thus, it was registered in both high (775 m elevation) and low (60 m elevation) areas in a relatively restricted area of the northwestern portion of the Caatinga, close to the Cerrado contacts. It also occurs in Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal (Martins & Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). In the Cerrado it is found mainly along gallery forest areas (Nogueira et al. 2011). It was recorded in a highland relictual forest area (Nascimento & Lima-Verde 1989; Loebmann & Haddad 2010; Montingelli et al. 2011) inside the Caatinga, and was also found in typical cerrado vegetation in Sete Cidades National Park (Rocha & Prudente 2010). It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates (Marques et al. 2005).