Eremias intermedia (Strauch, 1876)

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 3664, designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “...deserto aralo-caspico”; Kyzyl-Kum, Aralo-Caspian desert, Turkmenistan, by lectotype designation by Szczerbak (1974); detailed discussion on the types was provided by Bauer & Günther (1995).

DISTRIBUTION. S Central Asia, N Afghanistan, extreme NE Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 94. Khorasan Razavi and South Khorasan Prov. The record by Hojati et al. (2009) from Semnan Prov. is questionable .

HABITAT. Arid habitats such as sand dunes and stabilized sands with rodent burrows used as refuge.

REMARKS. Possibly conspecific with E. nigrocellata (Anderson 1999) .

REFERENCES. Szczerbak (1974); Bauer & Günther (1995); Anderson (1999); Hosseinian Yousefkhani & RastegarPouyani (2013a).