The total length of representatives of this genus ranges from 50 to 75 cm. The head is small, laterally compressed. The body is thin, slender. The coloration resembles coral snakes or aspids . They have bright transverse stripes, mostly red and white on a black background.
Prefer moist tropical forests . Active at night. They feed on lizards , amphibians , small snakes . They use their resemblance to poisonous snakes to scare away enemies.
These are ovipositing snakes.
They live in Central America and in the north of South America .
As of July 2018, 50 species are included in the genus [2] [1] :
- Erythrolamprus aesculapii (Linnaeus, 1758) - Aesculapius pseudo - coral snake
- Erythrolamprus albertguentheri Grazziotin et al. , 2012
- Erythrolamprus almadensis (Wagler, 1824)
- Erythrolamprus andinus (Dixon, 1983)
- Erythrolamprus atraventer (Dixon & Thomas, 1985)
- Erythrolamprus bizona Jan, 1863 - Colombian pseudo- coral snake
- Erythrolamprus breviceps (Cope, 1861) - Short - headed Lyophis
- Erythrolamprus carajasensis (Da Cunha, Nascimento & Avila-Pires, 1985)
- Erythrolamprus ceii (Dixon, 1991)
- Erythrolamprus cobella (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Erythrolamprus cursor (Lacépède, 1789)
- Erythrolamprus dorsocorallinus (Esqueda et al. , 2007)
- Erythrolamprus epinephelus (Cope, 1862)
- Erythrolamprus festae (Peracca, 1897)
- Erythrolamprus frenatus (Werner, 1909)
- Erythrolamprus guentheri Garman, 1883 - Gunther's pseudo - coral snake
- Erythrolamprus ingeri (Roze, 1958)
- Erythrolamprus jaegeri (Günther, 1858)
- Erythrolamprus janaleeae (Dixon, 2000)
- Erythrolamprus juliae (Cope, 1879)
- Erythrolamprus longiventris (Amaral, 1925) - Long - bellied Lyophis
- Erythrolamprus maryellenae (Dixon, 1985)
- Erythrolamprus melanotus (Shaw, 1802)
- Erythrolamprus mertensi (Roze, 1964) - Umbrivaga Mertens
- Erythrolamprus miliaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Erythrolamprus mimus (Cope, 1868) - Ecuadorian pseudo-coral snake
- Erythrolamprus mossoroensis (Hoge & Lima-Verde, 1973)
- Erythrolamprus ocellatus Peters, 1869
- Erythrolamprus oligolepis (Boulenger, 1905)
- Erythrolamprus ornatus (Garman, 1887)
- Erythrolamprus perfuscus (Cope, 1862)
- Erythrolamprus poecilogyrus (Wied-Neuwied, 1825)
- Erythrolamprus problematicus (Myers, 1986)
- Erythrolamprus pseudocorallus Roze, 1959 - Ordinary pseudo-coral snake
- Erythrolamprus pyburni (Markezich & Dixon, 1979)
- Erythrolamprus pygmaeus (Cope, 1868)
- Erythrolamprus reginae (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Erythrolamprus sagittifer (Jan, 1863)
- Erythrolamprus semiaureus (Cope, 1862)
- Erythrolamprus subocularis (Boulenger, 1902)
- Erythrolamprus taeniogaster (Jan, 1863)
- Erythrolamprus taeniurus (Tschudi, 1845)
- Erythrolamprus torrenicola (Donnelly & Myers, 1991)
- Erythrolamprus trebbaui (Roze, 1958)
- Erythrolamprus triscalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Erythrolamprus typhlus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Erythrolamprus viridis (Günther, 1862)
- Erythrolamprus vitti (Dixon, 2000)
- Erythrolamprus williamsi (Roze, 1958)
- Erythrolamprus zweifeli (ROZE, 1959)
