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 7, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686

Trilepida macrolepis (Peters, 1858) Type locality. Puerto Cabello, Caracas, Venezuela. Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, mainly on the Guiana Shield (Plt. 23A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and Guianan savannas (Plt. 23A) at low elevations (Plt. 23B). No detailed field data on habitat use are available for this species.