Habitat
Prefers savanna, caatinga and cerrado. It has been reported to occur in littoral xerophilous scrub, psammophilous and halophilous littoral grassland thorny xerophilous scrub, tropophilous deciduous and semidesciduous scrub, as well as tropophilous semidesciduous seasonal forest in the northwest of Venezuela. In the Chaco region of Paraguay, it is said to prefer the drier, sandier areas (Böckeler, 1988).
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