Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 5, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686

Epictia borapeliotes (Vanzolini, 1996) Type locality. Santo Inácio, Gentio do Ouro, state of Bahia, Brazil. Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 9A). Widespread in the Caatinga (Plt. 9A), mostly at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 9B). Observed in the field in xerophitic vegetation and upland forest in Caatinga (Ribeiro et al., 2012; Guedes et al., 2014).