This note documents the first record of Arcas ducalis (Westwood, 1852) in Uruguay and provides an updated geographic distributional map of the species, extending its known range by over 200 km. This is also the first record in latitudes south of municipality of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, and also the first time the species is recorded in a Forest remnant of a temperate grassland biome.
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